Squad Captain Reen boards Too Much Happiness at Infinite Guideline under a temporary peace, carrying the inked ledger of everyone lost or killed through her service. She is meant to seek stillness at Point Prime after the atrocity on Joska. The pilgrimage resembles care until it becomes clear that the Monasteriat expects to return her to combat afterward.
The mechan captain has visited the Wurmwall and carries an alien change inside its memory. Reen investigates, fearing a Palatinate weapon. Sunstar passengers discover her identity at the same moment that news from Joska ends the truce. Her armour replaces uncertainty with battle chemistry, and three more deaths join the account she has been trying to understand.
Too Much Happiness asks whether the marks count victims or enemies. Reen answers that they are both. As Point Prime fills the viewport, she imagines the separate lines becoming one field of darkness. The stillness she finds is not innocence; it is the terrible calm of knowing the ledger will continue unless the institutions around her change.