Chandra and Ajani reach Jadzi inside the titan’s skull. She is tending the archaic that carried her away, not fighting it. Nearby, a nexus resembles a snarl but contains glimpses of other worlds and impossible arrangements of reality. Each pulse causes the archaic to flicker because the future from which it originates is being altered.
Chandra sees the creature as the likely instrument of Jace’s plan and asks Jadzi to stand aside. Jadzi refuses to treat a living being as a disposable symptom. Killing it might remove an immediate threat while sacrificing the very future they claim to protect.
The argument makes room for a smaller agreement: investigate together before burning away what cannot be restored. Yet instability keeps escalating, and old injuries overtake restraint. Chandra and Ajani fight until both recognise that surviving repeated wars has not made more violence the only responsible answer.