The Outpost

Previously on "The Outpost"...

They"re not gods, and my kinj makes me immune to their powers.

You don"t have one, so stay out of it.

Get that key to Janzo and destroy it!

- It"s the key to the Skevikor. - Luna: It"s the key.

It"s talking.

Are you sure you"re writing down everything it"s saying?

Those are the names of the Seven.

Until you bring yourselves to us,

we will torture her.

Go, go!

- Tobin! - Run!

It is your turn to return to the fold, Golu.

Don"t you move. What are you doing here?

What is that? Is that your blood?

I need to get to Gallwood Outpost.

If you lend me a horse, I"ll make sure it's returned.

Gallwood Outpost?

You"re the Blackblood we heard about.

We know what you did for the Realm against Yavalla.

We"ll give you whatever you need.

- Thank you. - But you"re badly hurt.

- I heal quickly. - Wait here.

This is the price of immortality.

That"s enough, Janya.

You must keep a reserve to wake the Kahvi.

Destroy their dwellings so they do not repopulate.

Life in this world has increased since our first arrival.

It will feed us well for a long time to come.

Garret: Talon?

Oh! Sorry.

Are you all right?

- Tobin saved me. - Well, where is he?

Where is he, Talon?

They killed him for his kinj.

Resurrected another one of them.

So that means there"s five of them now.

You and I have the only two kinjes left.

- They"re coming for yours next. - Yeah, I know.

They"re slaughtering people now.

On the way here, I saw them burn an entire village.

My kinj protected me.

Then we need to hide you.

Both of you. Can they sense where you are?

- Where your kinjes are? - I don"t think so.

They didn"t seem to see me at the village.

All right, we might still have time then.

- Time for what? - I don"t know. Devise a plan.

Just let me get cleaned up.

All: To Tobin.

He could"ve gotten out of there whenever he wanted,

but he stayed to save me.

He"s a cocky son of a bitch,

but he"s a good man and a good king with too short a reign.

Speaking of reigns, who rules our people now?

I mean, in a preposterously short amount of time,

we"ve lost two queens and a king.

Who"s in charge now?

Tobin left Garret in charge.

Why change things?

Because when people find out he"s dead,

they"ll have no reason to follow me.

Agreed.

They"ll be more political chaos and competing factions

against humans and among Blackbloods.

It"s the last thing we need right now.

Then the people can"t find out that Tobin is dead.

What?

How many people know that Tobin has been killed?

The four of us and those monsters out there, right?

So why do the rest of the people need to know right away?

Because the people deserve to know the truth.

Their king and queen have been slain.

The best thing for them, for all of us right now, is to maintain order.

Focus our energy on defeating our real enemy,

not fighting amongst ourselves.

Zed"s right. We deal with the so-called gods first.

- Then we tell the people. - Talon.

We tell no one of Tobin"s death.

Garret remains commander for now, agreed?

- Both: Agreed. - I don"t like it.

How long before those things are at the gate?

I don"t know, but not long.

Talon, you"re back!

Ah, I knew His Majesty wouldn"t fail.

What is it?

What are we all so sad about?

Where"s King Tobin?

He"s away tracking the enemy, Munt, like the hero that he is.

Aye. What a king, eh?

Yeah. Yeah.

Going to prepare him something nice just for him.

He"ll like that.

Thank you.

I know. I couldn"t believe it either.

Now Garret insisted that he be kept behind bars.

I think it"s a little over-cautious.

Some might say even a little bigoted,

but he seems not to mind.

Well, who are you talking about?

Talon

meet 3-1-3.

He"s one of them, Janzo. One of those so-called gods.

Janzo: No. I mean, well, yes, that "s everyone" s first reaction.

- He looks just like them. - You have seen the Masters?

Masters?

That"s what he calls the Seven.

Talon, he"s no threat. I promise.

We found him underneath the Outpost beneath the Skevikor room.

We believe there are thousands more like him.

Thousands?

I thought there were only seven to be woken

by the seven kinjes.

Seven Masters.

Thousands of Kahvi.

Slaves.

Why are you here?

Because the man called Garret put me in here.

Talon: No, I mean your people.

The Kahvi.

Why are the Kahvi here?

We are meant to wake at the opening by the hand of the Masters.

Our only purpose is to serve the Masters

who will use you all as fuel.

Fuel?

Sure, Janzo, no threat at all.

Talon.

We believe his people were brought here

from the Plane of Ashes.

How long ago, I have no idea.

Oh, and he"s desperate for his Naviaspore.

I need my Naviaspore.

Talon: And what"s a Naviaspore?

From what I can tell,

it"s what he calls the gold kinj,

the kind Yavalla had.

Vorta, she had hundreds, maybe thousands

of glowing gold things in her arm and hand.

She did?

That explains the tubes.

- Tubes? - Come with me.

Tubes.

You see these tubes that run from the handprints of the altar?

There was a singular tube exactly the same as these

connected in the back of 3-1-3"s neck when he was in the pod.

Figured it was a way to deliver something into the Kahvi.

I thought it might be some sort of life-giving substance,

but what if all these tubes

are used to deliver those gold kinjes that you saw in Vorta

to the entire Kahvi population?

To control them?

Exactly.

To enslave them.

There are seven handprints.

Do you think it requires all seven of them to work?

I"d assume so.

Aster"s love for the creatures of this world

has blinded him to our purpose.

Janzo: Talon?

No, it had to be Aster.

One of the Seven. It was like I was seeing his memories from ages ago.

Aster. Asterkinj.

Ah, of course. Your kinj is his soul.

My flashes were no doubt from my kinj"s original owner as well.

That does follow our theory that each kinj

must hold the essence of one of the Seven.

- Mm-hmm. - Their memories must be intact in your kinjes.

When you touched the Skevikor altar,

well, it must"ve triggered them somehow.

Yeah, but what do the memories tell us?

I don"t know. They seemed random.

I mean, my was just standing in the Skevikor room with the other Masters.

Well, mine was weirder.

The creature was using my kinj

to make some human woman kill her own baby,

and then one of the other Masters stopped it.

- And was it Aster? - No idea. It was just flashes.

I"m not sure if I'd know it was him anyway.

When Vorta had me captive,

she kept saying Aster was the Betrayer.

If it was Aster who saved the human baby, well,

those monsters might consider that a betrayal.

It"s like there's something I should be seeing,

I just can"t work it out.

We need to figure this out soon,

because those things are coming for me and Talon.

Well, maybe there"s a hint of it in my texts.

- I"ll keep searching. - Thank you.

Can we talk?

If this is more about who should be leading the people, I"d rather not.

No. No, it"s not that.

Last time we saw each other, I felt like you were pulling away from me.

In the woods?

When we were running for our lives?

You know what I mean.

Zed said it might have to do

with the near extinction of the Blackbloods

and you feeling a pressure to be with your own people.

So now you"re going to Zed for insight into our relationship?

No. No, I"m coming to you.