Summary

Three years after her arrival, Rachel asks to go home to let her family know she is safe. Blevins secretly offers to Send her back if she will find Tristan and evacuate him from Constantinople. He issues a security alert claiming Rachel assaulted him and gained unauthorized access to an ODEC. Meanwhile, Tristan is on his fourth repetition of the culminating Constantinople mission. He and the Varangian Guard defend Galata Tower, a site close to the Jewish district of Pera, which protects the harbour chain and the walls of Constantinople.

During the battle, the emperor’s camp is deserted, and Tristan completes his mission: he moves a relic between two tents. He must survive the next day, then get Sent back to the twenty-first century by a witch he knows who travels with the Crusaders. That evening, the Crusaders celebrate their...