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Four years later, Ilya's health had begun to deteriorate but she remained a vital adviser to the White Scars, who now considered her something of family. Ilya helped guide the Scars to the [[Dark Glass]] artefact due to her knowledge of the mysterious [[Navigator]] [[Pieter Achelieux]], and during the [[Battle of Catallus]] urged that the Khan return to [[Terra]] instead of seeking to settle the score with [[Mortarion]]. Upon the sacrifice of [[Targutai Yesugei]] to activate the Dark Glass and open a portal into the [[Webway]], Ilya was among the three he psychically sent his goodbyes to.{{Fn|2}}
An elderly and dying Ilya took up residence inside the [[Inner Palace]] during the [[Siege of Terra]], still protected by a White Scar known as [[Sojuk]] at the Khan's order.{{Fn|3a}} Later after Jaghatai Khan was seemingly killed by [[Mortarion]] during the battle to retake the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]], Ilya Ravallion, Sojuk, and [[Jangsai Khan]] discovered the Primarch's dying body. Ilya demanded that Jaghatai be taken to [[Malcador the Sigillite]] as quickly as possible.{{Fn|3c}} She is later seen inside the [[Tower of Hegemon]], directing some final defences of the [[Sanctum Imperialis]] and learning [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s fleet is only 9 hours away{{Fn|4}}. In the final stages of the battle, Ilya, still inside Hegemon, learns learned of the [[Astronomican]]'s reactivation.{{Fn|5}}
After the Siege, Ilya chooses chose to retire from service on Terra. Traveling back to She met Jaghatai Khan, now conscious and slowly recovering, and Shiban for the final time before leaving for her old home with Sojuk, . Along the way the two manage managed to kill a horrifically mutated surviving [[Chaos Space Marine]] during their journey. Afterwards Restoring her devastated house and garden Ilya finds found a quiet and somber peace during her last days before dying in her devastated homesleep.{{Fn|6}}
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