News hit Titans Landing early the next morning—of the escape of the Dowager's favorite prisoner.
Lilith entered in from the castle at Darkwake in haste, descending the levels into the dungeons of Eragonn swiftly on her peculiar horned steed; she had managed in a year after the fall of the Capitol to appropriate and acculturate the polis back into a semblance of unity, she did not desire to give the dissenters—those still loyal to the Fae lines a holdfast to bank their revolution on, so for the time being she put her black dragon to the mountains in the east and instead used this [Hel Mutant] stallion as her ride.
After the horrors the capital had witnessed at the emergence of the Titans, even the mere shadow of a dragon patrolling the skies would be inviting trouble for the crown. Especially with the bloody King gone.
