In Glowlight City, a woman named Seraphina faces humiliation from another woman and a child over a distinctive sulfur burn scar on her leg. The woman commands Seraphina to hide her 'disgusting' scar and stop frightening the child, Aurelia. Seraphina's quiet compliance is followed by a pivotal, unidentified question about whether another person, Sarafina, bore a similar scar, suggesting a deeper, ominous connection to Seraphina's past and the scar's origin.