Found waiting in Brixton Ornatan's room at Honeybrookes as if she owned the place, reading a newspaper. When he entered, she didn't blink: "Oh, I'm never where I don't intend to be." Showed him the Vi Sun Herald's twisted account of the lift-ship incident — propaganda that filed the truth down to nothing. Questioned him about Vi-Upper and about "a book." Referenced his parents and the contact system by name, making clear she knows his obligations. Revealed her Freewake–Areska connection. Her return to the city is rumored to be "for something big. Something powerful. Maybe an artifact. Maybe a war."

Does not appear on-screen, but she becomes a target in absentia during Brixton's call home. Brixton's father explicitly wants any evidence that could tie Lyssa and the Verdant Gale too closely to government dealings in Vi - not to help the city, but to damage a rival faction.

Did not appear directly. Sent the Siltglass Wayfinder to Bodrin through Areska, with a handwritten note: "I chose something worth winning." The gesture closes a loop on how she left Calen Vara — she took something of Bodrin's; now she returns it, unasked, on her own terms. What she's chosen to win, and how, remains unstated.