Finale

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes descriptions of graphic violence, physical abuse, emotional abuse, and death.

Tella dreams that she is inside Legend’s mural, reliving a version of the moment when they stood on the Temple steps. However, this time, Legend is gone. The Maiden Death arrives, and Tella tells her to go away. The Maiden says she will not disturb Tella again, but she warns that if Tella doesn’t summon her and the Assassin upon waking, it will be too late to save both Scarlett and the empire.

When Tella wakes, she finds the two luckless coins in her hand. She also realizes that no one woke her during the night as planned. She searches the house to find Julian gone and a note from him saying that because Scarlett hasn’t come back, he has gone to see her.

Gavriel apologizes for killing Esmeralda in front of Scarlett and removes the ruby cage from her head. Though shaken, Scarlett seizes the moment to steer his emotions and begins questioning him about her mother. Gavriel indulges her and recounts how the Church of the Fallen Star had hired Paradise to steal the Deck of Destiny from Empress Elantine.