After returning Kaan's mlmr and seeing how deeply she hurt him, Raeve rushes through Dhomm determined to leave for the Fade. Raeve tells herself that closeness only gets people killed, refuses to explain the painful history behind that fear, and avoids looking too deeply into her own buried memories or the danger of her Other. With only a dagger and Clode, Raeve heads out without waiting for proper gear.

As Raeve cuts through an alley, the first raindrops fall. Raeve realizes with alarm that she can hear the rain singing in a mournful, unfamiliar frequency, and her usual mental sound snare cannot block it. She tightens her inner defenses completely, but when the storm slams into her, Rayne's voice bursts through the rain with overwhelming force.

The sound tears through Raeve's composure and her body. Surrounded by Rayne's grief in the downpour and in the puddles at her feet, Raeve staggers under an awning, presses herself against the wall, and breaks into desperate, uncontrollable sobbing while begging the noise to stop. Kaan comes up behind Raeve, shields her from the storm, folds her into his arms, and tells her that the cuff had been an act of kindness because storms in Dhomm are often violent. When Raeve says the name "Elluin," Kaan's response confirms that the woman he remembers crying in the rain was her.

When Raeve begs for something else to focus on, Kaan hums a song into her ear. The melody is achingly familiar, and Raeve lets it steady her breathing until she can sing along to words she somehow already knows from distant, half-remembered comfort. When the storm ends, the intimacy of Kaan's touch and song leaves Raeve shaken by recognition, and she asks how he knows her song. Instead of answering directly, Kaan says he has something he needs to show Raeve, kisses her knuckles, takes her hand, and Raeve follows without resisting.