Maeve sends a messenger to tell Aelin that she must surrender by the next dawn. Aelin, Aedion, and Rowan try to come up with a plan to defeat Maeve, but no one can think of a feasible idea. Aelin’s hopelessness breaks Rowan’s heart. When she falls asleep, he flies in his hawk form to the boat of his cousin, Endymion/Enda. (Rowan and Enda were friends when they were young, as Rowan lived with Enda and his father at one point in his life.) Now, he asks Enda not to attack with Maeve. Then he continues to the boats of his other cousins to ask them the same thing.

Dorian wakes Manon and brings her to Aelin and the witch mirror. He tells them that the power of the mirror is knowledge and reasons that the mirror might know how to use the Lock and bind the Wyrdkeys. Manon notes that it is a traveling mirror, so they can step into the mirror and learn how to wield the Lock. Aelin is hesitant but eventually agrees. She and Manon hold hands and step into the mirror.