Well after midnight, the Griffin children head home to Gryphon Park to inform their parents of the dire things that have transpired.
Terrible secrets are learned, particularly about the pain and price of remembering.
In the wee hours of Sunday morning, Rachel Griffin finally has a chance to carry out another of her wishes. An opportunity comes for her to kill the man who stole her sister, stole her father’s memory, and tried to change hers.
But as she flies toward him at high speed, with everything in place to bring about his demise, she hears the roar of the Lion.
Only a split second reminds for her to decide whether she will strike or grant mercy.
Here ends The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering.
It is also today that Book Six, The Guardians of the Twilight Lands begins…a minute or two after the previous book ends.
When she tries to keep a promise by sneaking into the boys side, she is nearly staked by Abraham Van Helsing, who thinks the girl sneaking around in the wee hours of the morning, dressed like a cat, is a vamp.
This is followed by a fight against barghests with her father and two other Agents, and ends with a visit to the infirmary—thanks to which she escapes a sticky situation with her friends.