Slow, ponderous music. Single notes on a cello or other bass stringed instrument.

Visuals are shifting landscape shots, blacks on deep violets, with splashes of red. Abandoned buildings wreathed in ivy. Empty school yards with shadows of not-people flitting along the walls.

VOICEOVER, Female, Young

"Even now, we don't know how it happened."

"Some people think that, having tried everything else, the Earth finally released her most vicious guardians."

VOICEOVER, Male, Old

"Some say it was a thousand-year-old treaty that finally expired, or a change of power."

VOICEOVER, Female, Adult

"And some say it was the end of the world, and we were the ones left behind. No one knows - we just did the best we could."

"We learned how to protect ourselves..."

Someone stabbing a fae, in which the wound burns like embers.

"... but by then, we had lost so many, all we could do was try to survive -- find others, and try to protect ourselves."

VOICEOVER, Female, Old

"Maybe we've fallen too far to make it back..."

• Cam working on a weirdly outfitted old Cadillac.
• Lennox looking down on a river from the roof of an overgrown highrise.
• Sienna turning suddenly to confront a shadowy figure, something burning in the palm of her hand.
• Joseph looking out from the steps of a chapel at many simply dressed people moving around a shantytown in the middle of grand, rotting skycrapers.

"... but for now, we have our wall, and we have hope."

Camera pulls back from the city to show the skyscrapers in silhouette, a demonic/fae face in the darkened sky above, and between the two 'Ironwall'.

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