Charlotte wakes gradually into undeath, noticing heightened sight in a dark room and realizing the curtains are drawn. Remembering Sabine’s bite, she discovers that dusk light causes her pain and dizziness, and that her heart is unnaturally still. She senses Sabine’s absence through an extended awareness of the empty house and begins to search.

Sabine returns, radiant to Charlotte’s sharpened senses, and brings George Preston to the door under the pretense of aiding an unwell Charlotte. Charlotte’s new hunger surges at the sound and scent of George’s blood. When Charlotte resists, Sabine calmly slashes George’s throat with a barber’s blade to “make it easy,” pressing Charlotte to feed.

George, confused and bleeding, staggers to Charlotte, smearing blood on her and triggering her loss of control. Charlotte bites and drinks, feeling her own heart begin to beat as George’s pulse races within her. She tries to stop as his struggle fades, but when awareness returns she finds George dead, his eyes vacant and the bite marks already vanished, leaving only the razor’s wound.

Overcome by horror and guilt—crying tears of blood—Charlotte asks what she has become. Sabine calls her “free,” then sends her upstairs to change while Sabine drags George’s body away and presumably into the cellar. Charlotte dresses in a winter-green gown, fights the urge to taste the blood on her fingers, and fears how quickly guilt might fade as Sabine suggests.

Sabine fastens the dress, embraces and reassures Charlotte, and answers her question of what comes next: they will leave. Once night falls, Charlotte’s dizziness is gone but her hunger lingers. They depart without luggage, Sabine dismissing attachments to houses and possessions, listing human pleasures she misses—fresh cherries, chocolate, spring sunlight—while extolling the need to uproot and start anew.

As the carriage pulls away, Charlotte glances back at the grand, empty house, but Sabine gently turns her face forward, commanding her to leave the past behind. Together they vanish into the night, beginning Charlotte’s new life on the run and under Sabine’s guidance.