Rose's hope of turning Solty into a thief is causing friction with Roy, but he may be the only person who can help when a face from Rose's past pushes her to the brink of murder.

Roy could use a little comfort food, so Solty spends her day trying to improve her culinary skills. Meanwhile, Rose is cooking something up with a mysterious RUC official who talks a good game.

Just in time for Roy's birthday, a homicidal mastermind from his past starts leaving explosive gifts around town. Revant isn't the only target - everyone he cares about is in danger.

Roy cherishes the memory of his daughter, but living with her is a handful. Rose finds herself torn between two identities, desperate to learn who she really is.

Alone once more, Roy turns inward, facing destiny at the bottom of a bottle. But Solty needs him now more than ever. As she wanders the streets alone, Roy must decide to gather his strength or suffer forever.

Solty's feeling down and ventures into the desert, stumbling upon an old man and a kid named Will. In the city, Roy continues to wallow in a dark funk - until Miranda decides to beat him out of it.

While Solty deals with tragedy in the desert, strange tests are being run inside RUC headquarters. Ashley introduces the new leader of the Security Force, shaking the squad to its core.

Solty returns home just as Roy ventures into the desert to find her. Meanwhile, Rose is back and in a position of power in the RUC. And when Ashley reveals his true colors, the primary shade is blood red.

Treason and murder have the RUC girls scrambling to survive. Not the types to take betrayal lightly, they begin a personal war. Meanwhile, the brothers Anderson learn of Rose's return.

Roy confronts Ashley, taking a stand against the seeming corruption of his daughter. As the Aurora Shell shimmers over a crippled metropolis, an observer from the desert decides to take action.

An encounter with Ashley leaves Solty catatonic. Meanwhile, the desert hermit reveals information about the Aurora Shell's impact on little girls - and one of the little girls decides to fight back.

The dark reality of Resemble technology is revealed along with insight into Eunomia; the super-computer steering the destiny of all who live beneath the incandescent heavens. Deconstruction is imminent.

Humanity is in the crossfire as Solty takes her first steps toward her incredible fate. First, she must face Rose in the smoke above the burning city. A better world awaits, but by whose design shall it arise?

Two hundred years of pain bring Ashley to the cusp of apocalypse, and humanity's undoing looms just beneath the stars. A time for great sacrifice has arrived.