Bhea finishes treating Raeve's injuries while the Incognito King stays close, holding her hands and watching her with unusual intensity. When Raeve realizes they plan to remove the pin from her shoulder, she mocks the effort, still convinced she is being patched up only so she can die properly. The king considers ways to reduce her pain, but when he sees the aurora is about to rise, he decides there is no time to cut the pin out and orders Bhea to numb and salve the wound instead.

Back in her cell, Raeve feels the itch of healing and the humiliation of being returned to await execution. She notices Wrook is gone and assumes the king fulfilled some separate bargain, which reinforces her belief that his help must come with conditions. Raeve tries to explain the king's behavior by telling herself she simply reminds him of someone else, but that answer does not ease the fear of her approaching death.

As Raeve sits awake and tense, Uno appears outside the bars, having used her magic and stealth to reach the cell. Uno says Sereme spoke to her master and ordered Raeve's escape, then starts picking the lock. Raeve immediately stops her, knowing that if she vanishes before the execution, the authorities will intensify their hunt and eventually find Ruse.

Uno resists Raeve's refusal until Raeve makes the danger to Ruse explicit. That warning triggers one of Uno's foretellings, and when it ends, Uno withdraws the pick and confirms Raeve is right to stay: if Raeve does not go to the coliseum, Uno's master and Sereme will die. The vision turns Raeve's grim choice into a certainty, so she accepts that attending her execution is the only way to protect them.

Before leaving, Uno draws a moon on Raeve's forehead with a piece of coal, a quiet sign of recognition and farewell. Raeve does not ask for details about her own death, choosing ignorance over one more terror. After Uno disappears, an awake cellmate asks why she wanted a moon, and Raeve answers that it is because moons fall, linking her own fate to the book's larger image of inevitable destruction.