Three days into hiding at Harp Oletsky's farmhouse, the Antidote sits at the kitchen table with Cleo, Harp, and Dell, examining Cleo's developed prints showing Sheriff Iscoe and Percy burying and burning Mink Petrusev. The images confirm what the Antidote saw in Vick's deposit. Harp is shaken but believes them; Cleo warns that others will dismiss the photographs easily. The Antidote tells Harp everything Vick and Percy did, and Dell defends her aunt's silence.

The group debates what to do. Lawyers are in Vick's pocket. Dell retrieves her transcription book of deposits, noting that some jurors from the Lucky Rabbit's Foot trial are implicated. After a hysterical shared laughing fit over scalding tea, Harp mentions Founder's Day, where he is to give a speech as Grange President, just before the election. Cleo proposes mounting an exhibition: she will display her covered prints and unveil them all at once, Harp will speak, and the Antidote and Dell will share what they know about Iscoe.

Over the following days, the four prepare. Dell helps Cleo in the root cellar darkroom, Harp works on his speech and asks the Antidote for spelling help, and the Antidote and Dell compile damning evidence and plan to return as many false deposits as possible, truthfully. The Antidote recognizes that exposing Vick means exposing themselves as liars. Only Cleo seems to grasp the full risk; Harp is overly enthusiastic and Dell naively hopeful.

The Antidote reflects on her growing sense of family with the women, sleeping on joined mattresses, addressing her unborn son. She dreams of Zintka (Lost Bird), reflecting on a History of the West centered on Invisible Loss, childless mothers and motherless children. She experiences a vision of a luminous wave of light rising from Harp's fallow field at dawn, and contemplates how to repurpose her emptiness, learning to make music from her hollow place rather than serving as a Vault.