Barns sends a message to Maria back in Dimartino. She opens it hesitantly and scans the contents.
"They caught the Corpsie," Maria informs Osmond, who stands to her left. "But that's the least of our problems now, isn't it?"
The man standing before the two of them twitches, his eyes hidden behind two thick glass lenses.
"It was so easy to get through this barrier, I have to admit," he gloats. "But my stupid stupid comrade couldn't do it. No matter. I'm here now! Here to kill every last one of you humans!"
The man is Franzel Ahrman - one of the Sentinels. The purple-bowl-cut, menacing, scheming narcissist who volunteered himself for this very mission just to prove he could do what Nazakiel could not.
And in that moment, he stood in the center of Dimartino's town square, his arms high in the sky.
