How It All Goes Down
Children of Regret
- Madrigal takes Akiva to a temple of Ellai, a phantom moon goddess, and tells him her people's creation myth.
- Akiva sums it up by saying, "That is your legend? […] That seraphim are the blood of a rapist sun?" (55.9) Yikes.
- They rush further into a nearby grove, and take each other's masks off.
- They say "hello" to each other three times in about four paragraphs. They just came to say "hello," we guess.
- Finally, their lips touch.
- Just one time... for now.