After Savannah identifies that the remaining puzzle is about words, Rohan solves the final anagram but delays giving the answer. Instead, Rohan studies Savannah’s reaction to language and suggests that people have used words against her because of her power and confidence. Savannah rejects Rohan’s probing and pushes past him to enter the answer herself.

Savannah submits the answer, sword, which triggers a green flash, a chime, and bells. The melody briefly unsettles Rohan, pulling him into a fragment of memory involving a woman, warmth, darkness, and drowning. Rohan recovers as the dining room wall opens to reveal a hidden compartment containing a sword.

Savannah moves for the sword, but Rohan reacts instantly, sliding across the dining room table and taking it first. As Rohan plays off the victory with charm, another part of the room opens: a trapdoor in the floor. Savannah turns back to confront Rohan instead of immediately descending.

Savannah tells Rohan to stop using charm, pet names, and calculated attention on Savannah. Savannah accuses Rohan of pretending to understand her and of trying to manipulate her, then reveals that Rohan missed an engraved message on the sword: From every trap be free, For every lock a key.

Savannah descends into the trapdoor after warning Rohan that Rohan will never beat Savannah to anything again. Savannah insists that other people’s judgments do not matter because they are beneath Savannah—and so is Rohan. Her words unsettle Rohan by echoing the same buried memory of being small, in darkness, and drowning, while Savannah promises that Savannah has no weaknesses for Rohan to exploit and wants to win more than Rohan does.