She Fights Back

After she meets with King Tanas, there's an unexpected jump in the story. She's pulled back in the real world, the one where the terrible disaster is happening, and she has her wings for possibly the first time.

She finds a family alone in a house, and she steps up to rescue them.

She has just went through the transformation into a villain, she was wearing the armor Death had gave her, and now she is thrust back into the real world with her wings, but no armor. There's a message there, or someone is trying to tell her something, do not believe you are what you appear to be. She quickly has to find herself, throw on some quirky Hot Topic style fashions, and get everyone to safety.

And then the undead hunters with no eyes attack, and they are shooting at them.

We are in the new world now, the one the four horsemen wish to create, a world of terrible monsters not unlike the Walking Dead but much more hellish, and she uses her wings to protect them and sends the family back into the house.

And then she fights back, picking up a rifle and laying waste to a crowd of ghoulish zombies.

It's a dramatic moment, and a clear change from her. There is a part of War's influence here growing on her, and one that will darkly blossom in the scene at the castle where she rescues Azrael. She is infected by his madness, and she finds killing zombies comes quite naturally to her. The influence and powers the horsemen are seeding her with are growing, and she is becoming one of them in power and in spirit.

The only thing that saves her is her motherly instincts, and the safety of the family comes first. She has already blown saving her own family, so maybe saving this one will make up for it. There's a fun scene with a car chase that comes next, and then the book hits the high point in the church before all hell breaks loose.

Someone put her there, or did she put herself in this house? This is the beginning of the change for her back towards good, and the first words to her not spoken by evil. So this is really a critical jump, and I don't explain it nor do I really want to. This is one of those 'reader meaning' moments you can read all sorts of stuff into. It breaks a rule she can never go where she hasn't been, so something strange is going on here.

Perhaps this is someone else guiding her towards the truth? It's up to you to decide, and that is the way it should be.