Chapter 4-11, titled 'Nightmare Genesis', is the scene that closes the loop on the central mystery of Zayne's psychology. It confirms what was previously left unnamed: the person his Ice Evol nearly killed in 2033 was MC. She was injured in that incident and fell into a coma. Zayne has spent over fifteen years not knowing she survived it — or knowing she did and carrying every day since as a sentence. Every act of distance-keeping, every deliberately cold affect, every career choice in the direction of fixing her heart — all of it is recontextualised. The nightmares are of this. The Dawnbreaker is built from this. The black ice is this.