A brief funeral prayer opens the episode. In the palace, a man who vows to stay after marrying the princess in 15 days is confronted for missing an appearance. When someone calls him "Luna" he explodes, bans that person from his chambers, and a courtier insists she—not Victor—saved the princess at Stormgate Pass and deserves the Prince Consort title. Dinner reveals the medicinal beef stew tastes wrong and is pulled. Accusations follow that someone entered the princess's private study to cause trouble, and a servant asks, "Where is his Crimson Spear?" The spear's absence leaves a clear, unresolved threat.