Episode Twenty-Three: "The New Frequency"

The crystal Pip produced is examined by Clarity, by Dion, by Queen Aura. It carries a frequency that is genuinely new — not existing in any of the old crystal-pathway records, not part of the gate's original design. It is something the Light Between has created by contact with the healed pathways. A new kind of magic, emerging from the meeting of two worlds in proper balance for the first time in years. It doesn't need to be used — not yet. But it is kept. Dion speculates: new magic appears when the balance is restored and something that couldn't exist in imbalance becomes possible. He looks at Danica. "You made something that didn't exist before," he says. This is treated with appropriate wonder and appropriate lightness — not terrifying, just extraordinary. On the return trip, Prism accompanies them back to the garden for a last visit. She has been spending more time in Luminos since the gate opened, as is right. But she comes back for visits. This episode is her last garden-visit before her permanent return to Luminos — her proper goodbye. It is warm, and funny, and right.