Emma’s Escape strategy.

...Just when Emma was scanning the battlefield for a way out, her mind calculating paths, distances, obstacles, she caught a glimpse of something... or rather, someone.

Cassian.

He stood not far from her, clad in the familiar half-armored regalia of the Temperance bloodline, his hair fluttering in the wind. He was calmly watching the chaos as if none of it concerned him.

Emma's eyes narrowed. That wasn't Cassian.

She knew. That was Chiron's clone. The Blood Shadow forged from the true Cassian's essence, the one Chiron had created back when he'd taken him hostage. Selene had failed to notice the swap.

The clone met Emma's gaze from across the field. He gave the subtlest nod, then slowly took a few steps back, just enough to set the next stage in motion.