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That evening, Sebastian comes to Brie’s room and gives her the Mirror of Discovery. She is relieved when the mirror shows Jas looking healthy and well cared for; she is being treated better in Mordeus’s care than she was in Madame Vivias’s. Sebastian invites her for a walk; though Brie tells herself that she is spending time with him as part of her scheme, she also recognizes that she misses her friend. He glamours them so that they can walk unseen, something Brie compares to her own powers. As they walk, Sebastian asks if Brie could be happy living in Faerie and marrying him. She promises to consider it, as she cares for Sebastian but is uncomfortable with eternal life as a faerie princess, tended by human servants.

Sebastian reveals that his father was assassinated by fae who defected from the Seelie Court to the Unseelie Court. He references ongoing conflict between the courts but contends that “the right leader could unite both courts” (190). Sebastian confirms that he always intended to help free Brie and Jas from their contract and offers them a place in his court after he becomes king.