Evie visits the manor's healer, Tatianna, to have her injured tailbone examined after the fall in the previous chapter. Despite the healer's request that she bend over, Evie refuses out of embarrassment, and Tatianna relents, using her magical healing abilities to diagnose a badly bruised tailbone without physical contact. Her hands glow warm yellow as she assesses the injury.

Tatianna's payment system involves secrets rather than coin. She demands two secrets from Evie in exchange for a full healing. While waiting, Evie nearly touches a potent slow-acting sedative on Tatianna's shelf, prompting a sharp warning. The healer jokes about keeping "frog potions" in a different cabinet, hinting at the magical oddities of the manor.

For her first secret, Evie reveals she had a dream about "the boss" the previous night, sending the normally composed Tatianna into a flustered frenzy. The healer teases Evie about the dream's nature, calling The Villain "a walking vice" and declaring Evie "corrupt by association." Tatianna provides a bone-mending salve that Evie applies behind a privacy screen, enduring the nauseating sensation of bones knitting together at an unnatural pace. Tatianna warns the bones will remain pliable for a while.

In a tender moment, Tatianna gives Evie a pink vial of pain-management medicine for Evie's father, apologizing that she cannot do more for his Mystic Illness. Evie fights back tears and deflects with humor, asking if sitting wrong could make one side of her backside larger than the other. As Evie prepares to leave, she delivers her second secret: the dream about the boss was dirty. She spins toward the door laughing—only to come face-to-face with The Villain himself, standing right there. Mortified, she asks if he'd like to add her head to the entryway collection.