Siege of the Tower of Heva is the assault on the prison-tower of Eva de Huizinga in Mikulov Castle, some thirty kilometers from Prague. It ended with Eva’s escape and the liberators’ passage out of time into Antiterra.
| Type | Event (siege) |
| Location | Tower of Heva, Mikulov Castle |
| Arc | Bohemia |
| Houses of the Cycle | ☯ House of the Twin Cosmos · ⛓ House of the Band |
| Spanish entry | El asedio de la Torre de Heva |
History
The liberators reached the highest chamber with the hosts the queen demanded by coercive magic: they gave her four white ones, added to the twelve black ones she already held (the 24 Hosts). Magda disobeyed and ate a host. The consubstantiation cast a beam of light against the wall; the stone liquefied, a breach burst open and the tower shook.
From the projection a creature of mirrors took shape in the form of a woman: faceless, masked, with moth wings and a dress covered in small mirrors. Someone named it “the revolution of the innocents”. Each mirror showed an origin of one of the liberators:
- a boy losing his ball in the well where a girl drowned;
- a baby with eyes like those of Casimiro, left by a horned being before a circle of druids;
- a noble adolescent fighting before Carcassonne;
- Steve Reyes as a baby, abandoned in Boston under the constellation of the Scorpion;
- Krisina fleeing by ship from a sinking island;
- Magda weeping before an oak split by lightning.
The siege went on: ram blows, a black dog, papers flying — among them the queen’s notes on the contract of “the uncle” (Contract of Oratiol) — attackers (“faustos”), and a seal to protect on the floor. Eva teleported away with the hosts; the liberators kept only two.
Aftermath
The liberators were thrown out of time onto a frozen moor where the dust is gems of broken souls — “welcome to Antiterra, here, Demonia”. There, between two tunnels descending to hell, where the pawned soul of Oratiol waits, the white-sailed ship of the Atlanteans picked them up and offered to take them to the shores of America (The Tides of Time). The game, the Atlanteans said, “has not even begun yet”.