A Fire in the Flesh

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, rape, sexual violence and harassment, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual content.

Kolis grants Sera’s request to leave her cage. As he leads her through the desolate City of the Gods, she is unnerved by the lingering smell of death and decayed buildings. Their destination is a grand hall filled with gods, some of whom are having sex in shadowed alcoves. When Sera questions why, Kolis replies that it is in response to his presence as the true Primal of Death. 

They enter a grand hall filled with gods, Primals, draken, and Revenants. Sera is made to sit on a golden pillow at Kolis’s feet while he holds court. Keella, the Primal of Rebirth, questions Sera’s presence because she is the rightful Consort of Nyktos, but Kolis claims that her coronation was illegitimate. He invites Keella to ask Sera directly if she is staying with him by choice. Sera forces herself to lie and say that she is there willingly.

Sera sees a god feeding on one of the Chosen servants. When she responds with horror, Kolis says that the servant seems to be enjoying herself.