How It All Goes Down
Pressia (Solstice)
- Out in the wilderness, Pressia wakes up and hears El Capitan singing. He's on guard, but also singing a sad love song.
- She takes over guard for him, then decides to do some research with Fignan. She looks up Newgrange again and learns about how the winter solstice occurs on December 21st.
- But she also learns that in Newgrange, the sun shines directly into a chamber for only seventeen minutes during the winter solstice.
- And then the lightbulb goes off in her head.
- She runs to Bradwell and El Capitan and reminds them about how Art Walrond said, "Time is of the essence" in the message.
- That must mean they need to get to Newgrange for that seventeen minutes, because the formula is probably buried there.
- Easy peasy. Oh wait: December 21st is in three days… so they need to get moving.
- On their journey, they have to cross a dam. El Capitan has an are we there yet moment, and Fignan shows them that they're about eighteen miles away from the directions that Hastings gave them.
- Bradwell recognizes where they are on the map: they're near D.C.
- And you know what else is near D.C? The Capitol Building.
- That's right, Ellery put the airship in the Capitol Building.
- But, since they have such great luck, a beast pounces at Pressia on the dam. She almost falls off, but Bradwell catches her while El Capitan wrestles the beast.
- Bradwell comments that saving her was romantic, but El Capitan just defines it as chivalry.
- We're starting to get a sense of El Capitan's soft side now.