In 1950 within the time space, Lisavet is suddenly exhausted and unable to sleep. Azrael warns that “heartbreak” may be to blame, but timekeepers across nations have begun actively hunting her, forcing her to flee at gunpoint and making it harder to salvage endangered memories. Months after her last night with Ernest, Lisavet feels movement in her abdomen; Azrael summons another robed specter who confirms Lisavet is pregnant, placing her around sixteen to twenty weeks. The realization that she is carrying Ernest’s child—while Ernest no longer remembers her—overwhelms Lisavet, and she faints.

As the pregnancy advances, Lisavet hides inside memories to avoid timekeepers and suffers nightmares of Jack Dillinger ordering Ernest to kill her. She discovers the baby calms only when Lisavet sings “Blue Moon.” While humming, Lisavet encounters a spectral memory she recognizes: Elaina Duquesne, Ernest’s sister. Elaina confides she had a baby who died shortly after birth and admits she later took her own life from grief; she begs Lisavet to collect her memories so Ernest will not have to. Lisavet agrees and preserves Elaina’s life moments into her book, then retreats when an unnamed Russian timekeeper watches her with wary curiosity.

Lisavet goes into sudden labor and, with Azrael absent, pulls herself into an Austrian hospital memory to get help. After hours of painful “complications” and heavy blood loss, Lisavet gives birth to a girl with Ernest’s copper hair and blue eyes. She refuses to stay, steals a nurse’s uniform, and carries the newborn back into the time space—only to find an entire shelf-row collapsed into dust, evidence her interference has destroyed many lives’ recorded memories.

Almost immediately, the baby’s crying draws timekeepers; Lisavet is forced to run while still weak. Worse, Lisavet cannot feed her child: the infant remains fully physical and hungry, but food taken from memories passes through her and Lisavet’s milk fails. Azrael urges Lisavet to leave the time space before the child starves, even if departure might kill Lisavet, but Lisavet cannot accept abandoning her daughter. After showing the baby treasured memories and confessing love, Lisavet resolves on a desperate alternative: place the baby into a safer timeline where she can be fed and protected.

Lisavet enters a hospital memory from Elaina’s life on the night Elaina’s newborn daughter is about to die. Pretending to be a nurse, Lisavet gives Elaina her own baby to breastfeed, helps Elaina choose the name “Amelia,” and then secretly swaps Amelia into the nursery, placing her beside Elaina’s dead infant and rewriting the cradle plate with Amelia’s name and date. Lisavet buries Elaina’s dead baby in another memory and returns to the time space to find a vast chasm opened in the floor, whispering with destroyed echoes of Time. As Lisavet flees, the Russian timekeeper seizes Lisavet’s fallen book and time-walks away with it, taking her preserved memories—especially of Ernest—with him.

In the following years, Lisavet repeatedly visits Amelia through altered memories and interferes to keep Elaina alive and stable, making multiple changes that widen the chasm further. Azrael pleads with Lisavet to stop rewriting the past; Lisavet rejects him in anger, and it becomes their last meeting. In 1952, timekeepers ambush Lisavet; after she almost escapes, Jack Dillinger catches her, mocks her, and forces her through a door to waiting men in white coats. Lisavet is sedated by syringe as the time-space door closes behind her, never reopening.