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Nate awoke to find himself alone and, disappointed, went to meet his spy. He once more apologized to her for Plainsong's willfulness and allowed her the run of the house before departing. As he walked through the rest of the mansion he came upon Plainsong and insisted that she was owed an apology, which Plainsong agreed to, before meeting Alice as she departed for London for the week. The pair said their goodbyes, Nate wishing he could leave with her, and Alice said she loved him as she leaves.

Nate takes a nap before the ceremony and is woken by servants, walking out onto the stage, seeing the crowd, Jeova, the Faction of Paradoxes, all of them assembled to hear him talk. As Salomon introduces him he begins his speech, greeting them all, how they're all here to listen to the Magus. But he insists that he is not the Magus. He is Nathaniel Silver, a soldier who has stumbled his way into a few connections. No, this conference is the Magus, and he insists that it's important they all work together to share knowledge across the globe, as the [[Invisible College]] does, as the [[Royal Society]] does, but on a much larger scale, open to all. And he insists, in the spirit of open inquiry, to share with them his secret, his philosopher's stone. He asked the angels to join him, the stone swells, and Christs's pilots answered.  

He drops to his knees as the room panics, thanking them for appearing, as one of them reaches out and tries to burn him away. As he nears death, one of the members of the Faction rushes over and stabs the angel, before being shrugged off into the egg and absorbed, vanishing. The angels tell Nate that he broke their bargain and his life is forfeit, but the remaining members of the Faction arrive, insisting that it's not theirs to take. His life has been bound to the loa, and the actions of the pilots declared war on Faction Paradox. The two sides began a duel as Nate collapsed, the egg deflating down to normal size. Nate attempts to retrieve his stone, but finds that Nick Plainsong snatches it just out of his grasp and darts off. Salomon Bendo enters the scene with a horde of Servicemen, no longer pretending to be a hunched over old man, ordering the detaining of everyone involved for questioning, most especially Silver. Unwilling to put himself through this, Nate slips out of the window.