The chapter opens the next morning with Bryce at Griffin Antiquities, studying her list of Danika's last known locations. Jesiba calls and orders Bryce upstairs to her office to send a secure file from her offline computer. While there, Bryce notices the Godslayer Rifle—disassembled into four pieces and mounted behind Jesiba's desk—and recalls the engraved golden bullet in the safe reading "Memento Mori." Before hanging up, Bryce asks Jesiba if she's heard anything new about Luna's Horn, but Jesiba says she hasn't.

Back at her desk, Bryce dreads the next step of her investigation when Hunt calls with urgent news: there's been another murder about ten blocks away, near the Gate in the Old Square. Despite Bryce's attempts to avoid going, Hunt shows up at the gallery door and insists they leave together. On the walk over, Hunt warns her about what she'll see, but Bryce is so dissociated she barely registers his words.

At the crime scene, Bryce sees a horrific sight—blood splashed across bricks, pooled on the ground, and clumps of red pulp beside a dumpster with a torn acolyte's robe. The scene triggers overwhelming flashbacks to Danika, Connor, and the rest of the Pack of Devils reduced to similar carnage. A medwitch attempts to piece the corpse back together. Ruhn, present in his capacity as head of the Fae Auxiliary units, grabs Bryce's shoulder and tries to pull her away, but she wrenches free and tells him not to touch her.

Ruhn and Hunt clash—Ruhn calls Hunt an asshole for bringing her, and Hunt counters that Bryce is an adult who can decide for herself. Ruhn also raises the alarming possibility that the acolyte's murder is connected to their visit to Luna's Temple, suggesting the killing was either a warning or retaliation for the girl potentially seeing something related to the Horn. Bryce walks away from both of them, telling them to leave her alone.

As Bryce storms through the streets, she reflects on how she once would have gone to a dance studio to cope but hasn't danced in two years, having thrown out all her dance clothes—some of which were stained with the Pack's blood. Hunt catches up and walks beside her. He mentions that he was present the night of the original murders, and Bryce privately recalls that he said "Hey" to her in the interrogation room, though she's never told him she remembers. Hunt then asks how she survived the kristallos that night, noting it had pinned and ripped open Micah's chest. Bryce is stunned—she had no idea it was Micah who fought the kristallos—and the chapter ends on that revelation.