Red Rising

Darrow suffers agony from his wound and imagines Eo tending to him as he drifts in and out of consciousness. He wakes up in a cave to find that Mustang has rescued him. She sings the song Eo sang before her death. Mustang tells Darrow that over the past month, Cassius has become Mars’s Primus, and Mars and Jupiter fight in the North. 

Darrow and Mustang discuss their divergent leadership traits. As the pair kills a wolf, Darrow suggests they fight like wolves. Later, Mustang uses Darrow’s hand to show him the value of autonomy in assembling social structures. Darrow realizes, “Mustang’s strategy is Eo’s dream” (271). 

Mustang becomes sick. Darrow returns to the cave one day to find two “Oathbreakers, the Shamed who have broken their vows after being enslaved” (272) stealing food inside his and Mustang’s cave. Darrow throws them out. Later, Darrow plans to kill them, but Mustang stops him. 

They move campsites. Mustang continues feeling ill, and Darrow’s affection for her grows. Darrow goes in search of food. 

Fitchner has followed him. Fitchner’s pulseShield repels Darrow’s shot. Fitchner says the Proctors gave