POV: Aphrodite
She knows. He knows she knows. Neither speaks.
I find him before the morning watch.
He's at the position where the tactical equipment is maintained — the weapons that have been part of his kit since before the ruins, the device construction materials that Cassian found and catalogued without understanding what they were for, the specific modified tools that have been building toward the application the prophecy describes.
He's modifying weapons.
The specific modification that disrupts divine energy — the same principle as the court device, applied to a larger scale and a more sustained application, built for the specific mechanism the prophecy's halt the gods architecture requires.
He knows I'm there before I speak. He always knows.
He doesn't stop the modification.
