The castle walls reek of humidity and dust, labyrinthically designed corridos lead her rescuer deeper and deeper into its guts. After literal days of searching and fighting, his tracker leads him to simple room, no chains, no restrains; the woman he seeks sleeps placidly on a bed. What he does not know, is that the Illuminados wanted her found, extracted, returned. She was now the ultimate insult and mockery to their enemies; she had been profoundly changed.

He gently awakes Ashley, causing her gasp, jolt, finally feeling the effects of her transformation. Her biological change was slow, meticulous, but the psychological one... beautifully abrupt.