Through Julian's account, Ethan finally pieced together the truth about Micah's strange behavior.
When Ethan and KH3106 had departed aboard the Shatterstar, Morzan had sent the surviving trial participants back to their original locations. The day before, Red had bluntly asked Blackie to leave with her. To everyone's surprise, he refused.
That night, however, something unthinkable happened. Red ambushed Blackie and knocked him unconscious. The next day, she was gone, and he returned alone. From then on, the once playful, talkative Blackie became withdrawn, quiet, and unreadable. Nobody knew what had really transpired—until Micah emerged from his meditative trance.
The very first thing Micah did was drop a revelation that shook everyone. While wandering the void during meditation, he had seen what had truly happened that night: Red had taken Blackie by force. She had sought to preserve her dwindling bloodline and chose Blackie—the Black Qilin—as the vessel for it.
