Kai leads Paedyn through the palace with urgency to Queen Iris’s long-sealed chambers. Inside the dust-covered room, Paedyn notes signs of Kitt having taken Iris’s jewelry box earlier, implying he could have seen Calum’s notes. Kai reveals his true aim: to find sealed records that might clarify the timelines around Iris’s death and the royal births.

They locate a locked desk and force it open, uncovering three decrees: birth, death, and marriage. The records show that eighteen years ago a daughter was born to the king and that Queen Iris died in childbirth eighteen years ago, matching Paedyn’s supposed birth and the secret that Iris died giving birth to an Ordinary. The marriage license of Edric and Myla says nothing of a child, and there is no record of Kai’s birth, leaving a gap that raises suspicion about Kai’s parentage.

Deciding to go to the source, Kai and Paedyn confront Queen Myla in her sickroom. Myla admits she married Edric under her adviser father’s direction to solve the king’s problem after Iris’s death, and confesses she already had a son by another man when Edric chose to marry her. Edric had a Silencer verify the infant’s power and wanted the extraordinary child—Kai—as his own, publicly presenting him as a royal spare while keeping the truth secret.

Myla explains Edric told the kingdom he mourned Iris for three months before marrying Myla, claiming he delayed the announcement for safety. She confirms that Kai was claimed to strengthen the throne after an embarrassment: an Ordinary child born to the queen. Kai realizes he was never Edric’s by blood and that the king’s abuse and relentless molding of him stemmed from Edric’s resentment that Kai’s power was not his legacy.

Paedyn and Myla connect further truths: Paedyn was not the king’s Ordinary but the daughter of the king’s Mind Reader, hidden among the Fatals whom the king kept out of sight. Kai recalls only encountering the Silencer among the Fatals and now sees how Damion once identified his power to Edric. Myla recognizes that Edric died believing Paedyn was the Ordinary who ruined him.

The scene closes with Paedyn claiming the act of killing Edric, accepting that even powerless she ended him, and hoping he recognized the face of the Ordinary he despised at his death. The discoveries solidify that Edric fabricated records and narratives to conceal Iris’s true death and to claim Kai as a powerful spare, leaving both Kai and Paedyn with stark truths about their origins.