Luzia continues her private lessons with Santngel and finds herself unafraid in his presence, enjoying the focused calm of shaping her song-magic without the usual fear and self-erasure.

When Luzia presses him for details about the Torneo Secreto, Santngel postpones the discussion and produces pale seeds from his satchel. He has Luzia perform a simple miracle: she makes a seed sprout rapidly into a pomegranate sapling. She is thrilled by the life she creates, but Santngel abruptly snaps the stalk to challenge her with a harder question: whether she can heal something living, not just repair an object.

Luzia reaches for her familiar healing song, but the magic feels unstable, tugged toward a new pattern. After regaining control, she restores the broken sapling and drives it past mere repair into vigorous growth, with roots searching the desk and blossoms bursting from branches. Santngel praises the impossible vitality of her miracle, and his confidence leaves Luzia dangerously light-headed.

Víctor de Paredes enters and dismisses the display as "meager," then turns his sour mood on Luzia and Santngel. He interrogates Luzia about her readiness to impress Antonio Pérez and manhandles her, while Santngel tries to stop him. Víctor frames his cruelty as proof of investment and orders his bodyguard Álvaro to break Santngel’s fingers so Luzia can demonstrate real healing under pressure.

Álvaro snaps Santngel’s fingers one by one as Víctor demands results. Panicked and unable to find the tune amid the sounds of bone breaking, Luzia finally shuts out the room and follows the song as it shifts into something larger—a music of exile and survival. She shouts the words aloud, and the chapter ends with Luzia screaming as pain tears through her.