Ruhn Danaan visits a medwitch clinic in the Old Square, following up on a meeting at a crime scene the previous night where he was impressed by a medwitch's intelligence. He waits in the serene clinic while she finishes with a patient, noting her striking beauty and calming presence. The medwitch, who clarifies she is only covering for her sister (Miss Solomon) while she is on holiday, invites Ruhn to wait in the courtyard garden until her next patient appointment ends.

After thirty minutes—during which Ruhn fields calls from Declan, Flynn, and his Aux captains—the medwitch returns with a tray of tea and food, and they share lunch together. Ruhn asks her to keep their conversation discreet, then poses his central question: whether a magical object broken beyond the ability of witches, Fae, and even the Asteri to repair could somehow be healed. The medwitch quickly deduces he is speaking of Luna's Horn, a Fae artifact from the First Wars made with magic and usable only with Starborn gifts.

She initially echoes what other medwitches have told him—that the Horn is beyond repair. However, she then considers modern medical advancements and suggests a new possibility: someone might treat the artifact not as an inert object but as a living thing, using technologies like lasers, drugs, skin grafts, or transplants to repair it. When Ruhn mentions the ancient Fae riddle that the Horn could only be repaired by "light that was not light, magic that was not magic," she admits her knowledge is rooted in older healing traditions and cannot identify a specific modern technology that fits.

Ruhn asks whether the witch queen Hypaxia might have an answer. The medwitch grows briefly sorrowful at the mention of the late Queen Hecuba's death, then explains that Hypaxia is in mourning and will not receive visitors until the Summit. Ruhn acknowledges the case is too pressing to wait. The medwitch offers a warm farewell, saying she hopes to see him again—words that linger in Ruhn's mind as he later researches medical breakthroughs at the Fae Archives. He realizes he never learned her name.