Excerpt from Xena’s journal

“I feel…weird about what Icarus did. I mean, I feel better than ever. I can’t fucking deny that. Shit, it feels right. Magic that’s mine, not someone else’s. But I know what him giving me this gift cost, and I damn well know what him completing his ritual does. They’re suffering, yeah, but they could be brought down. Some of them were goddamn kids, or never wanted to ascend. And they didn’t fucking get a choice or a chance to avoid that. Now Icarus wants to burn them up to give everyone power. Fucking end them all to further his own goals.

“The worst part is…I don’t think I have it in me to oppose that now.”