As Rowan’s attack throws Maeve’s camp into chaos, soldiers rush toward the western destruction, leaving the eastern side easier to infiltrate. Rowan and Gavriel use the confusion to reach Cairn’s isolated tent, following the signal that Aelin has been found and knowing Fenrys may still be inside.

Rowan enters the tent with Gavriel after sending wind ahead to sense two injured life-forms within. Inside, Rowan sees Fenrys unconscious and blood-soaked on the floor, Cairn wounded but alive, and the iron coffin where Aelin had been confined. The torture implements, metal table, chains, and braziers reveal the scale of what Aelin endured there.

Gavriel begins healing Fenrys, and although the white wolf does not wake, Fenrys’s breathing steadies. Rowan then orders Gavriel to heal Cairn as well, not out of mercy but because Rowan wants Cairn alive for what comes next.

Rowan studies Cairn’s tools and selects a thin healer’s knife. Once Gavriel’s magic restores Cairn enough for consciousness, Rowan has Cairn chained to the metal table. Cairn wakes, sees Rowan’s rage and the instruments prepared beside him, and understands Rowan’s intention.

Rowan wraps the tent in an ice-laced wind to block out every sound. With Fenrys stabilized and Cairn helpless, Rowan begins exacting revenge for Aelin’s suffering.