In which many things happen, from yelling and crying to dressing up to OHHHHHH FUCK.




And Dian gurl. Gurl.





Fam delivers the good news.



Dian is so mad.





Luscinia is back from the winter wonderland.



Then everyone finally gathers before Sara, who is doing such a good job on her own uuuuu.



Then everyone starts fighting. LUSCINIA IS A DICK WE WON'T MAKE PEACE TIL HE'S REMOVED AS PREMIER AND LILIANA IS LOCKED THE FUCK UP. NO U! NO U!! etc.







Liliana and Millia exchange and give us a little more ... insight?



Turanian people plot things.



Talk about how the world is going to start sucking again, because humans suck, etc.









Then Sara is sick of this bullshit.





In the end a very awkward peace happens.



And then everyone has a ball for this awkward peace.





Sadri, seeing Fam dressed up so looking even MORE like Raha, makes his move to find out who she really is. It is adorable.



Tatiana looks gorgeous and Dio wears whatever the hell he wants to a formal party, fuck your standards! They talk about how awkward this is. Also I hope that's booze in Dio's cup, I want Dio to get crunked.







Sadri asks Fam about her family and her past.



Then before Sadri can finish Fam steps on his foot by accident.



Orang and Millia get a nice moment too and Sorush my babyyyyyyyyyy. ;;



Turanian maid makes her secret move!



Only. Well. It's not so secret with this guy creeping.



Millia goes to meet with the Turanians who don't want Liliana leading them, so propose Millia take the leadership herself by killing Lilana. But Millia is just like BUT YOU GUYS...



Oh yes and of course Alauda followed them after creeping earlier.



Oh it's a. Thing. (aka an old Guild fortress)



Millia gets taken to Luscinia.



They talk about stuff we know, ala about Earth, the great calamities, the Exile project and the Guild spearheading it.





Then we get some more tie-ins to Travelers.







Then she goes to meet with Liliana with convenient-for-drama placed shards of glass on the floor.







She talks about her choice being hers to brand herself as a witch and gives Millia her headpiece.



OT3. ;;





Then they see-- UH OH WHAT DID DIAN TELL US ABOUT AURORA IN THE SKIES?



The next day everyone is gathering for this peace. AWKWARD PEACE but peace.



And then Dian tries to shoot Luscinia but AND THEN OH FUCK SO MUCH HAPPENS AT ONCE.









Millia gets the Exile powers! VISIONS.











La la la.


I HAVE MANY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THIS EP so as usual we shall break this down.

I think I'll start with how much I love Sara! Because in the last couple of episodes she's really stood up to finally really be Augusta. She's not just letting Vasant and Luscinia use her name for what they both felt was right. And when things got heated during the meeting, she stood up and went NO. NO YOU GUYS GOD DAMN IT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO THIS. And they listened-- for the most part. I mean the whole episode basically focused on how flimsy and weak the peace was and how it once again ended in assassination, but there was still the fact that Sara really did do a lot on her own in the episode, and most people hopped on board with it despite the awkwardness. Given how the episode ended of course ... I wonder how Sara is going to react to however Luscinia reacts, because I don't think he is going to just go 'o ok' and not do anything in retaliation to (Dian, Glacies, everyone not Ades as planned).

EITHER WAY. I love Sara and feel so bad for her because she's trying so hard and she almost finally made a difference after taking a stand but now everything's just be tossed into a handbasket headed for hell.

Dian. Dian Dian Dian Dian. "As long as hatred smolders within people's hearts, peace is nothing but a fleeting dream." You sure proved that at the end of this episode. I kind of really like how they handled Dian's character going in this direction? Even though I wish they didn't because she became one of my favorite characters really fast when she finally got screentime, so it's just kind of sad to watch her basically go insane. And she ended up really taking the downward spiral after Glacies was destroyed. Much like Sadri being related to Fam, they chose an interesting and "... huh!" character to go down this route. Which is something I like that they've done in the series, because they're not who you would expect to be the person in that position anywhere else. Dian let her anger and thirst for revenge consume her, which is understandable after having her country destroyed and taken over, having no choice but to team up with former enemies who are now in-fighting with themselves, and then losing many of the few people she had left due to her own mistakes (also caused by anger toward former enemies). I really wonder what's going to happen to her in the next episode, now. They didn't kill her after she shot (just tackled her), so loooool.

Now the big'un. What's been put out there about Luscinia, Liliana and their goals. Which the backbone of it is pretty much that the Earth is going to get fucked again because it's too small for all of the people returning from the Presters settling/growing. Which is something the viewer can see as a very realistic thing in our world. But I think the way they're handling it-- OR RATHER, what they put it out there SO FAR doesn't really put a very sympathetic light on Luscinia and Liliana. They obviously wanted one on them (hence the whole special ending with Liliana and Millia scenes) but the actions taken for those reasons weren't very justifiable and now that their MO-- or a big part of their MO is finally revealed it's not really something to go "oh! Now I see why they're doing what they're doing!" at. Of course, with three more episodes and there being something Luscinia "needs to do" according to Liliana, there might be more TO it, which is why I'm not going into it too much. But so far what's been revealed isn't hitting me in the sympathy area because of the way they've handled things. And the narrative seems to have intended a form of it, given what we've seen and learned about Luscinia and Liliana both. Though that Liliana knows she has branded herself a 'witch' to everyone says a lot, so there might be more to it (or rather, I hope there is). With Millia's inheriting the power and seeing the visions, we'll get that answer soon.

Though despite any of that, it was still very OH MY GODJKSJKFJSKL when she ended up dying because seriously, Dian's actions were not exactly in the cool club. And if there was more to their goals that required Liliana being alive/able to control the Exile, they're pretty much fucked up now. And now we see how Luscinia reacts to this in the next episode, because it's not going to be pretty. That's two assassinations and major fuck ups right when peace is finally a possibility/starting to come together. And both hitting Luscinia right in the heart.

Now I wanna ramble about the visions Millia got, as few as they were. I'm still wondering if the destroyed building in the first vision is supposed to be something the viewers might recognize? I just think it's interesting that it looks very modern/our-day so might tie things into a more 'LE takes place in the future of our world' (of course, still AU because things like lolClauda and lol jedi genetic clone elves). And with moons involved I think it'd be cool if they used the actual moon for the Exile project. It also fits in with things fandom has noticed in other scenes-- ala the globe and the VCRy looking things in the backgrounds of the Fam/Giselle child flashbacks. And in the background of the space cap looks it like there was an orbital elevator of sorts. This was just over 600 years prior to where both LE and Fam take place.

- We don't know how long the Exile project was supposed to have lasted. Much like how over time things turned into myths and legends, the plan to 'signal the Presters' when the time or return came was probably also lost, considering the 'Guild relic' Luscinia found was pretty much ruins. Likewise, in the timeline it says that Presters were built 'so the colonies could last for perhaps a millenium'.

- Still, 600 years is a long time and it seems as though Earth was really royally screwed by the calamities.

- Which brings me back to the setting for Fam taking place on a slightly altered but still recognizable Mediterranean Sea. With all of this talk about 'the world being too small' I wonder about ... the rest of the planet? Is the rest of the planet unable to be inhabited because it's so bad? Global warming and other things happened to start the Exile project in the first place, so I'm sure there's a lot more changes all across the globe (like said Med. sea joining with all other bodies of water around it for Fam), but there's still more LAND out there. They haven't addressed whether or not that's a Thing or not. Because compared to the scale of the planet, Fam takes place on just a small portion of it.

SO ALL IN ALL. I liked this episode with the possible exception of the whole backbone to Luscinia/Liliana's MO, but with three more episodes it could expanded on in a way where it might be fleshed out better. Sara is finally being awesome, I can't wait to see how everybody reacts to DAT ENDING and Dian u in danger girl.