Finale

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

Although Tella knows Legend will come back to life because he is immortal, his death still leaves her reeling. Julian finds her amid the chaos and urges her to flee the palace. He also tells her that Scarlett is missing and was last seen on her way to meet Nicolas. Tella insists that they find her sister, and Julian reluctantly agrees.

As they make their way through Valenda, rumors swirl about what happened to Legend, and each is more outlandish than the last. When they finally arrive at the count’s estate, they are met with a foul smell and an ominous silence. Inside, they discover Nicolas’s charred body. Tella believes this tableau to be evidence that Gavriel came for Scarlett as revenge for Paloma’s betrayal. Tella and Julian search the house, but Scarlett is nowhere to be found.

Scarlett awakens to find herself in a room filled with opulent yet twisted decor, including gilded cherub heads with animal eyes and frescoes depicting human-animal hybrids. Disoriented and nauseous from being drugged, Scarlett realizes that she is not on Nicolas’s ship or anywhere near Valenda. Instead, she has been transported to one of the eight Fated places: the Menagerie.