Kairi Shishigou reanimates a skull, stating he wants to talk with it. At the Clock Tower, Waver accepts a job from a lecturer of Spiritual Evocation, Wills Pelham Codrington, who explains how his father created the Marburry Workshop out of wasteland, but the leylines became warped, resulting in freak lightning that has killed multiple Magus, including his father, and a dozen bystanders. With Sir Trevor dead, the resulting inheritance conflict between the branches to his house would hurt Bram Sophia-Ri, the next head of Spiritual Evocation, who Waver has agreed to do a favor for...