In the dark, Grayson grows suspicious that the power should have returned already. Odette challenges his assumption that the group is safest inside the secure house, warning that being locked in would be dangerous if there were a fire.

Odette’s comment pushes Lyra to think of the island’s burned trees and her father’s death. Odette then suggests that Grayson and Lyra are “the right kind of disaster,” a Hawthorne and a girl with every reason to avoid Hawthornes. Lyra understands this as a reference to her father’s final words: “A Hawthorne did this.”

Lyra says the accusation aloud, and Grayson acknowledges that Tobias Hawthorne was capable of using people as tools. Odette sharply insists that neither Lyra nor Grayson knows what they think they know, beginning to say “The tr—” before suddenly collapsing with a seizure.

Grayson reaches Odette first, turns her on her side, and tries to steady her until the seizure stops. Odette regains consciousness and immediately resists being treated like an emergency.

The lights come back on, and Nash announces over the speakers that the outage was a technical problem. The game continues with sixty-three minutes until dawn, and if at least one team reaches the dock by the deadline, the rules still stand. Grayson wants Lyra to press the emergency button for help, but Odette refuses, focused again on playing.

Lyra recognizes that Odette has withheld whatever she was about to reveal. Deciding that the path forward is toward the dock and toward answers, Lyra proposes that they take their hint.