Collum enters the unguarded Glass Castle and finds his fellow knights drunkenly feasting on fairy food at a table shared with four silent fairy knights and Morgan le Fay. On a throne sits Sir Kay, broken and half-mad, the missing Round Table knight they sought. Kay is unresponsive and clearly offers no clue about Arthur's return; Collum doubts whether their costly quest was worth Villiars's life.

Morgan draws Collum aside and tells him her life story: how Uther murdered her father Duke Gorlois, raped her mother Igraine, and forced his Roman, Christian world on Cornwall, erasing the old gods. She, Morgause, and Elaine were scattered; Morgan was sent to a convent, joined a coven, was hunted by Merlin, and finally fled into the Otherworld. She frames Arthur as the product of rape and a king who never apologized or made reparations.

Morgan reveals her true purpose: she proposes that the Round Table accept her as Arthur's heir and Britain's queen, citing her royal blood, her thousand fairy knights, and the encroaching Otherworld threatening to overrun Britain. Collum, though briefly tempted, refuses, insisting Britain needs Arthur or his rightful successor chosen by God.

Enraged, Morgan orders her four fairy knights to seize Collum's medal. Collum fights and defeats all four single-handedly, displaying skills honed under Aucassin. He gathers his recovering companions and Sir Kay to leave.

Before sending them back, Morgan shows Collum his reflection: phantom butterfly wings and a crown of oak leaves hover around him. She tells him he is not who he thinks he is, that Britain is not what he believes, and returns the knights to Camelot, where a disaster is already underway.