Rescue & Restoration

Ro barely survives the night as the monsters suck away most of her soul despite the best efforts of all who love her.

Zeke tricks her into her male avatar where she should be safe, but she turns back into herself when Lang joins her at the funeral.

Ro is attacked again and the multidirectional draining gets fiercer, almost ripping her apart. Zeke is ’frozen, unreachable. But Langdon is there, trying to be supportive.

Ro needs more than support. She needs him to fight with her, to anchor her here. Ro throws off all their clothes and impales herself on him, raking his back savagely until he becomes the wild violent warrior she needs.

Later Zeke finds another way to anchor Ro in this world by stripping naked in surgery for his medical examination and staying nude.

Ro is enchanted and enthralled again by his glorious body, remembering a past life when Zeke and she had posed for sculptures by Michelangelo. She decides Zeke looks much better now than when he posed for David, the statue long considered the epitome of masculine beauty. There is a little horseplay in surgery

The guys raid Galen and rescue their old companions

Ro introduces Taj to her mother and sisters