Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of bullying, substance use, addiction, violence, death, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Alex hides in the warehouse, clutching a titanium garden space and listening as daimons search for her. Titanium is lethal to daimons and kills immediately upon reaching their blood. The only other way to kill a daimon is through decapitation. 

Alex hears a scream and runs, but a daimon catches her. They scuffle, and Alex stabs him, turning him to dust. She nearly reaches the door before a male daimon stops her. As a half-blood, Alex can see through the daimons’ glamour to their monstrous true form. A female daimon appears behind Alex, and another daimon’s scream echoes in the warehouse.

Alex fights the female daimon and almost escapes but a wall of fire blocks her path. Aiden St. Delphi, a pure-blood Hematoi Sentinel and Alex’s first crush, walks through the fire and orders her to get down. She spots two other Sentinels, including Kain Poros, a half-blood she knew at the Covenant. Kain kills the female daimon. The male daimon bites Alex. He drinks deeply and questions what she is before being pulled away, leaving Alex with a scar called a “tag.