Isla spends her nights watching people in the marketplace to learn about the different realms and their rulers. She meets a barkeep named Juniper who deals in secrets. In exchange for her telling him that she let Oro win the duel on purpose, Juniper tells Isla that Moon Isle will not be guarded during the full moon.

Celeste hosts her demonstration, which will provide the last piece of information Celeste and Isla need to break into the libraries and find the bondbreaker. Celeste uses an enchanted mirror to make each ruler face and conquer their deepest fear. Cleo takes the shortest time; Celeste and Azul take the longest. Then it is Isla’s turn.

When Isla steps through the mirror, she is pulled into a world that looks just like her room at home in the castle at Wildling. Her deepest fear is being trapped there in a shrinking room without any contact with the outside world. As her room shatters around her, Isla pulls herself free and finds herself back in the hall again with the other rulers. The demonstration is over, and after the hall empties, Celeste pulls out the pair of enchanted gloves and touches them to the mirror, soaking up the energy each ruler left behind when they completed the task.