When Shadow Moth had been defeated, Alix had thought that it would be the end of it. Paris could return to normal, everyone's lives could return to normal, and it would all be fine.

"Alix!"

She looked up. "Paarthurnax?"

"Can I talk to you for a bit? It's important."

Confused, she followed the dragon to the place in that park where she'd practiced the Thu'um. Paarthurnax landed on his old rock. She sat down on the grass.

"So what's the matter?"

"The barriers between Nirn and Oblivion - the home of the Daedric Princes - are weakening, and Molag Bal, the Prince of Domination and Corruption, may take advantage of this to attempt a Planemeld, and fuse his plane of Oblivion, Coldharbour, and Nirn, so that he may harvest the souls of all and rule over everything. He may well be the worst of all the Daedra, Prince or not."

Fire burned in the back of Alix's throat. "So what do we do?"

"Strunsahtiid is attempting to find a way to stop Molag Bal from attempting a Planemeld, but tasked me with telling you, Ladybug, and Cat Noir about this so that if we need to invade Coldharbour and confront the Prince directly, it won't surprise you."

"One more thing. What made the barriers between Nirn and Oblivion go wonky?"

"We're not sure, but it might be because of the amount of undead brought into Nirn by Durnehviiir."

As Alix made her way home, she made a mental note to go over every Shout she know in her head. She would need them.

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"Hey, Paarthurnax? You sounded pretty worried when you told us to come here and discuss things. What's wrong?"

Paarthurnax had told Adrien and Marinette to meet him as Cat Noir and Ladybug at the Arc de Triomphe, then brought them to Dovjunaar, all without really stating why he wanted to talk to them in the first place.

"So, you see," Paarthurnax began, "the barriers between Nirn and Oblivion are growing weaker, and there is a possibility that it was because of Durnehviir summoning so many undead into Paris."

Cat Noir felt his heart sink. Durnehviir raising an army of undead had been his idea.

Ladybug noticed and reached over to pat his shoulder. "It wasn't your fault kitty. You didn't know something like that could happen."

"So what now?"

"Molag Bal may try to invade Nirn. Strusahtiid is trying to find a way to impede him, but failing that, we may need to directly go to Coldharbour to confront him."