Luzia wakes to screaming as Santángel shakes her and orders her to dress quickly: the Inquisition’s alguacil and men have arrived to arrest someone and are searching the palace. Santángel helps Luzia into her clothes and braids her hair, and despite the danger, their new intimacy leaves Luzia unrepentant and sharply aware of what she wants to remember if she dies.

Valentina appears, pale and trembling, urging Luzia to come because Marius wants them to leave but they have no carriage. Santángel warns that no one will be allowed out while the search continues. When soldiers thunder past their door, Luzia braces for her own arrest, but the Inquisition instead drags Teoda Halcón’s nursemaid into the hall, screaming that she is innocent and didn’t know.

Teoda’s father is marched out next, subdued and half-dressed, followed by Teoda herself, fully dressed and praying loudly in unfamiliar words. Teoda denounces priests and saints, warns of the king’s slow death, and when struck, spits blood and prophesies an ugly death for the young soldier; another soldier kicks her and carries her away under his arm. Teoda meets Luzia’s eyes with rage rather than fear, while the shaken soldier insists to Valentina that all is well.

For the rest of the day, Luzia and Valentina huddle in the Ordoños’ rooms with no sign of Don Víctor or Hualit. Santángel comes and goes with food, wine, and fragments of news: the grounds have been searched, the puppeteer is burned but able to travel, Teoda’s room has been ransacked, and Calvinist texts were found among her father’s belongings. Luzia spirals between questions about whether Teoda engineered the demonic chaos and whether her “angel” and predictions were inventions or something darker.

Luzia’s thoughts ricochet between desire for Santángel and fear of the Inquisition’s tortures awaiting Teoda. Valentina coaxes Luzia to eat cheese and drink wine, then admits there are whispers that Luzia was brave during the prior night’s terror. Luzia insists she was terrified and wanted to run, but Valentina emphasizes that Luzia stayed—and presses her to eat more.