Fuel draws the Seriema toward Kavaron That Is, the surviving half of the Kav homeworld. The stop violates Tannuk's exile and exposes the old conflict behind it. He once redirected a falling fragment to protect lives, treating people as more important than untouched memorial matter. Kav law judged the same act as another theft from a world already stripped by its empire.
Alpharael's damaged fighter arrives ahead of them and floods nearby workers with radiation. Sami could preserve fuel, secrecy and schedule by leaving. Instead they organise a rescue for all twenty-four Kav, including the stranger whose crash caused the emergency. The detour turns a wanted Monoist into a guest and an illegal return into proof that Tannuk never stopped serving his people.
The Endstone reaches Alpharael. Contradictory grief, doctrine and survival make him a receptive chooser, and reality begins flexing around what he wants. The crew understands too late that the stone did not merely travel with them to Kavaron. It brought together precisely the people whose unresolved choices can move it toward the next stage.