02x01 - Hunter

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Hmm.

Wasn't our best.

It was a disgrace.

I had your foe in my sights.

Why did you stop to fight it?

Why did you wait so long to fire?

Enough!

We should all have done better.

I should have done better.

You may not have fully recovered from that.

Fair me.

You are all at ground cover.

She is even less herself than usual.

I have tried to speak with her.

She gives me nothing.

I will go.

Yes, that would be well.

We need her.

This malaise must not continue.

We're not fighting as a unit.

And it's my fault.

I was distracted.

I'm seeing pieces of the broken past
again.

Fractured memories.

Of what?

I don't know.

It's all hidden in shadow.

Sigma takes much from us.

And we give it gladly.

But perhaps this time he offers
something back to you.

I do not feel Sigma's hand in this.

The past is the past.

But it will not stay there.

It pursues me.

This shadow.

It haunts me.

No. It hunts me.

You are no prey, Niamh.

You are Sigma's huntress.

Stop running.

Face the shadow and show it who you are.

Perhaps.

But the last time I hunted my past, I
led it straight into a trap.

Last time.

You left most of us in the dark.

We are Sigma's wolves, Neve.

We are a pack.

You have to let us in.

I let you in.

Your words mean more than anyone else's.

Then listen to me.

Please.

Do what you know you must.

Free yourself of this shadow.

Let us in.

Lord Carthalot, Lord Valiant.

I received your summons. Do the Black
Talon stand ready?

We stand ready.

Call the hunt and we shall answer.

I am glad to hear it.

A report has reached us of
an agent of the Eternal Foe

within the walls of Hamahal
Aksha, a dangerous soul.

He has thus far eluded all attempts to
capture him.

We believe this agent's master is the
same puppeteer who pulled This Is

Capture, not k*ll.

We must know why he is here.

And who sent him.

I understand.

What scent will my hunters
have to pursue this prey?

A mark of ruin on his left arm.

Will your soul scribe be able to track
the agent through this?

LeRoy has not elected to share the full
extent of her abilities with us, my lord.

But she has tracked quarry with
similar spore in the past.

Very well.

We must find him, Black Talon.

Can you do it?

You ask me to immerse myself in tainted
times.

I ask you to do your duty.

To hold to the oath you made.

What you demand is that I plunge into
a hurricane seeking a single drop of rain.

Dangerous. Difficult.

Find him.

Rowan itself has drowned this cloth.

The mark is no mere symbol.

It is a ripple of its true essence.

Like a cause to like.

The taint knows the presence of its
kind.

Within a limited distance, this will
reach out for its twin.

How limited?

This gives us a chance at least.

He's been spotted in the ash entangle ways.

We start there.

Are we to skulk like thieves?

Not all of us.

You will be visible.

Make your search openly.

Excellent.

I will flush out our quarry.

And we will be the jaws that trap it.

Anything? Nothing.

But his sense remains.

He must not escape.

So come on now.

We needed him alive.

I would have just to wound...

I feared your aim after the training hall.

An aim you should have trusted then, too.

You did say the mark was on his left
arm.

That's right.

There's more than one.