The ancient prisoner's identity is revealed, and the importance of Aristotle's discovery fuels a new initiative to escape from the gilded cage of Limbo, which has been recently discovered to be infiltrated by metamorphed high demons. The fugitive hunters, tasked with finding the distinctive escapee, are bearing down, and Chiron, in search of answers, soon becomes part of the hunt that will change Hell's landscape forever. Aetos lays at the bottom of a river of boiling pitch in the Eighth Circle, as Panos, shredded by the Harpies of the Wood, has been captured by the human-despising centaurs of the Seventh Circle.