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Casey and April struggle to overcome the Rat King’s machinations. Will they be able to make their way to the eldest Pantheon sibling and find the answers they are looking for?

Appearing in Casey & April issue 4[]

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The past.  As April prepares to leave on her road trip, Leonardo stops her.  He says that he felt something weird when he first received the scroll from Splinter.  He warns her that it may not have been an accident that they came into the scroll and there may be higher powers at work.

The present.  The Rat King leads April and Casey down a dark corridor of the thin place; a limbo between dimensional space.  Along the way, he tells them of some of his exploits in the past, of how he made and broke royalty through the centuries (Genghis Khan, Marie Antoinette, Richard Nixon).  They then enter into the room of his sister, the Japanese bird-woman named Aka.

Casey is hesitant, but April insists that they speak with her, as she feels their meeting with Aka was the entire reason they came into the scroll in the first place.  Aka looks over the scroll and identifies the flaming Joshua tree as being symbolic of herself.  She explains that she and her family are immortals who ruled the Earth a millennia ago and warred among themselves.  However, when humans entered the picture, they changed the playing field and the immortal siblings adapted their struggles by manipulating mankind for their own benefit.

Bored with all the talk, Casey tries to shake down the Rat King for answers.  Equally brash, the Rat King transforms into a giant dragon made of rats and attacks him.

Aka freezes time so that she and April may speak privately.  She tells April that a great change is coming, a war, but urges her not to fear it.  Her immortal siblings are gathering and things are about to become very dangerous, and when that happens, Aka says she will leave this plane of existence.  As time resumes, the Rat King toys with Casey and tosses him around.  However, time suddenly runs out and everyone vanishes in an instant.

April and Casey find themselves where they were before it all started; Casey at the old gas station and April outside the trailer.  They reconvene and hit the road in the van.  Leo calls to check in with them and as Casey gives Leo a brief summary of their recent exploits, April unfurls the scroll and finds one of Aka’s feathers wrapped in it.  A little later, April and Casey kiss and make up before driving directly into an ominous storm looming on the horizon.

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