Feyre formally tells Nesta that she is being moved to the House of Wind. Each morning Nesta will train with Cassian in Windhaven, and each afternoon she will work in the library beneath the House. Amren makes clear that the apartment, taverns, and Feyre’s financial support for Nesta’s current lifestyle are ending, while Cassian watches tensely because no one fully understands the danger of Nesta’s power.

As the confrontation continues, Amren claims the Night Court has the legal right to command Nesta because Nesta accepted a wartime role as the court’s human emissary. Amren gives Nesta two choices: accept the new arrangement at the House of Wind, or return to the human lands, where her new Fae nature would leave her isolated and unwelcome. Cassian recalls that the intervention was triggered that morning when Rhys received a huge bill for Nesta’s latest night out, which left Feyre in tears and convinced the group that waiting for Nesta to recover on her own had failed.

Nesta asks to speak to Feyre alone, and the argument becomes more personal. In Nesta’s point of view, her rage is tied to deep trauma from the war, Elain’s capture, Cassian’s near death, and their father’s murder, along with her shame, dislocation, and fear of her own power. Feyre says that she tried giving Nesta time and space, but Nesta only kept taking their money and pushing everyone away. Feyre also reveals that Elain already agreed to the plan and is packing Nesta’s belongings, which makes Nesta feel abandoned by the last person she thought was still on her side.

Feyre and Nesta then fight openly over money, control, and family. Feyre says Nesta spent five hundred gold marks on wine, food, and gambling, and that Nesta’s public self-destruction reflects badly on Feyre, Rhys, and the court they rule. Feyre insists that training is meant to teach Nesta control and confirms that Nesta’s apartment building is already being condemned and will be rebuilt as housing for war-displaced families. When Nesta says she never wants to speak to Feyre again and asks for Elain, Feyre refuses, saying Elain will come when she is ready. After Feyre leaves, Amren admits to Cassian that the legal claim was invented, while Nesta is left feeling that every bond tying her to her sisters has been severed.