- Where angels touch grace
One without sight sees the dark enemy.
At the right hand of the twice-blessed man,
The ally leads him to the summit.Quatrain 12, century 5
Nostradamus tells of a possible ally in the fight who can actually see the Gua, Foster follows up on it and investigates a hospital with dark secrets and horrific experiments.
Tropes:
- Body Horror: Cade finds people in the abandoned wing of the hospital who've been subjected to horrific experiments, including someone with a tentacle where their leg should be.
- Eye Scream: Cade finds the kid whose eyes were harvested for Alikah. When he's captured, he comes very close to having his corneas harvested for her, without anaesthetic.
- Refusal of the Call: Alikah wants none of this "fighting an alien invasion" thing.
- Strapped to an Operating Table: Cade finds himself captured in what turns out to be the very same operating theatre where he would have been dissected had he not escaped.
