Darkstalker

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of graphic violence, death, death by suicide, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Listener and Clearsight prepare for Queen Vigilance’s Glass Jubilee, celebrating 40 years of her reign. Clearsight thinks about the moonstone earrings that Darkstalker gave her as they pick out jewelry and feels guilty for checking the scroll to ensure that they are not enchanted. Listener shares that she has a new boyfriend named Thoughtful.

When Clearsight meets Thoughtful, she sees two possible futures, neither of them good. In one, Thoughtful and Listener live together but are both dissatisfied with their relationship. In the other, Thoughtful finds his true love elsewhere. At the celebration, Thoughtful greets the group that includes Clearsight, Listener, Fathom, Darkstalker, and Whiteout. Whiteout immediately connects with Thoughtful, recognizing his artistry, and they walk off together. Before anyone can react, an assassin attacks Darkstalker.

Lionfish, Fathom’s bodyguard, kills the assassin. Everyone stares in shock when they realize that there is no blood on Darkstalker. Darkstalker claims that the assassin missed, but Listener insists that the spear should have pierced his heart. Thoughtful identifies the attacker as Quickdeath, a professional killer.