Season 1 · Episode 3

Episode 3 is where the record should widen again—if the station, the witnesses, and the archive can still be trusted. Read every published chapter for this episode here.

• S01E03C01 The Right QuestionMarsh Causeway, Sub-station OutpostGalahad returns to the causeway with everything the survey has, and someone finally asks Aldera the question she has been waiting for.
• S01E03C02 The Root and the Rest of ItMarsh Causeway, Dryadic GroveThe grove work the causeway night deferred. With the feeding loop broken, the team goes back for the anchor itself — and learns what removing one cause from a two-cause problem actually proves.
• S01E03C03 The One He Did Not NameMarsh Causeway, Sub-station OutpostThe morning after the grove, Galahad hands over the last of the survey file and does not hand over the one thing in it that is his — a meeting twenty years ago with a woman who has not changed since.
• S01E03C04 The Order of EvacuationPelagos Minor, Equatorial Evacuation BasinA planetary disaster response protocol that always prioritizes women, children, and older adults saves thousands in the moment — but leaves a generation marked by grief, demographic imbalance, and social fracture.