Fyodor stayed in the US for another three days and in that time he spoke at NYU and Wharton and did an interview with Fareed Zakaria for CNN. To those that interviewed him or sat in audience and listened to him speak, Fyodor was an enigma that was impossible to unravel. He held so many views that were seemingly incompatible and yet when pressed on how it made sense for him to have such views he responded with an answer that was so eloquent and abstruse that the questioner had to just accept it and move on. Fyodor's instant popularity was due to his inability to be put in a particular ideological box. People on the left liked what he had to say about the dangers of income equality while people on the right liked what he had to say about identity politics being a cancer.

Fyodor's trip to the United States had been a whirlwind success and he was going back to Ukraine to continue leading the REJOIN campaign as a bona fide global celebrity. His visit to the US wasn't well received by all, in the days following his appearance on In The Crosshairs the main talking point on the show had been David Huntsman and those like him who didn't care about the economic pain that people were experiencing so long as they continued to see their wealth increase. Thanks to Fyodor's stunt at The Growth and Opportunities Conference, David was now enemy #1 of the left and the insurgent populist right, whose political leader was Jim Balmer whose campaign David had put more money into than any other donor. David wasn't happy about this, in fact he was furious, believing that he was being taken advantage of to raise Fyodor's profile for the purpose of assisting the REJOIN campaign which David frankly didn't give a damn about. Yes there was an opportunity to make a killing on energy futures, but David didn't need political manipulation to make a killing, he always made a killing no matter what the conditions were that he was operating in.

David was uncomfortable with the addition of Fyodor, fearing that Fyodor could use the supernatural powers of persuasion that he had obtained from the snake to alter their course. The raven picked up on David's discomfort and decided to exclude him from a trip that it had planned to Chris's ranch in upstate New York where he was keeping the unawakened bull. The raven made the trip with Chris and Fyodor. With the lion now out of the picture, the bull was the last remaining guardian to be awakened with the black egg, the raven having visited the pig and awakened it while David was in Moscow. On the drive up to his ranch Chris was filled in by the raven on its plan for world domination and Chris enthusiastically agreed to do whatever he was asked to do in furtherance of the goal. Chris also got to meet the snake, and having experienced the power of the bull and what it had done for him he understood why Fyodor had been able to so easily win him over during their interview.

To avoid it being noticed by anybody, Chris kept the bull hidden away in a barn on his property. The bull was white with yellow eyes and had a large horn protruding from between its eyes in addition to the two regular horns on top of its head. When they arrived at his property they went straight to the barn to perform the awakening. Like Fyodor had been when he first saw it, Chris was humbled by the sight of the raven removing the black egg from John Lafferty's chest. It was perhaps not accurate to continue calling it the black egg as it was now mostly red, a sign of its imminent hatching. The raven believed that the absorption of the bull's primal force would be enough for the egg to hatch, if not it would have to seek out and awaken the dragon, which, given the way things had gone the last time, it was not looking forward to. Upon seeing the egg, the bull walked over to it and touched its nose to it, bringing about its awakening. There was no time for them to fill the bull in on the situation. The raven's suspicion was correct, absorbing the bull's primal force was enough to satisfy the egg. It turned fully red and began to crack, with deep black light emanating from the cracks. The raven took the egg outside and placed it on the ground and warned Chris and Fyodor to keep their distance. The egg continued to crack and release more black light. The more the egg cracked the more the ground beneath them shook, while the black light that was leaking out of the egg enveloped their surroundings so that eventually all that they could see was each other and the egg within what felt like a limitless black expanse. Chris and Fyodor could feel the evil of what was being set free and it terrified them. The raven looked on with eyes filled with rapture. It had only gotten to see this a handful of times before, so for the raven this was a special moment that needed to be savored to the fullest. The egg stopped cracking and started to shine; the raven warned Fyodor and Chris to look away or they would be blinded. The egg lit up in a white hot glow that sucked up all of the black light that had covered the land and the sky like ink.

"You can open your eyes now," the raven said to Chris and Fyodor.