Sante1ngel, resigned to dying without Luzia, is marched with her and a gagged Flemish pirate from Toledoe1s city gates to the quemadero, where city authorities will burn them after the Inquisitione1s rituals. The crowd follows in mixed silence and cruelty. Remembering Luziae1s promise to do something final and world-shaking, Sante1ngel wonders if she should flee but accepts her choice to face what comes.

On the pyre, their sanbenitos are removed to be displayed later in churches, and Luzia is bound to a post. An alguacile1s man gags Luzia, and Sant00e1ngel realizes someone fears her last-moment poweremdrawing his suspicion toward Vedctor de Paredes and Fortfan Donadei, both visible in the crowd. Sant00e1ngel spots Valentina Ordof1o with Quiteria, apparently weeping, and notes Dof1a Beatriz is absent.

The executioner offers the usual chance to repent for a quicker strangling death, but Sante1ngel follows Luziae1s earlier insistence that they refuse it. The torch is set to the four corners, the fire takes quickly, and Sant00e1ngel, choking on smoke, meets Luziae1s gaze through the flames and smells orange blossoms as the burning begins in earnest.

The chapter shifts to Luziae1s perspective as she watches the crowd and steadies herself with Valentinae1s rosemary. Luzia considers the devastation her song-magic could unleashemdousing the fire, healing herself and Sante1ngel, or harming the onlookersembut chooses a more pointed act: she fixes on Donadei and his golden cross, especially the emerald that resisted her earlier refre1n and functions as a rare talisman for focusing a sagee1s power.

As smoke sweetens and fear rises, Luzia embraces the dangerous, unwieldy shape of true magic rather than restraining it. Though gagged, Luzia forms the words and sings within herselfe0a0Aboltar cazal, aboltar mazala0emdrawing on Sante1ngele1s strength and the strange scent of orange blossoms. The song surges, splits, and tears open the world, promising a violent shift of scene and fortune as she dies.