Nona regains her senses on a makeshift bed made of three chairs, with her memories still distant and confused. She discovers that her ankles, one hand, and her other hand are bound or chained, leaving her trapped in an unfamiliar room.

The accumulated shock of recent events—Pyrrha, the Angel, Hot Sauce, and everything that has gone wrong—overwhelms the calming effects that Palamedes and Camilla had maintained by taking Nona to the ocean. Nona falls into her third-ever tantrum, screaming until her throat breaks and heals repeatedly, then using anger to ignore pain and tear herself free of the restraints, badly damaging her body in the process.

After freeing her ankles, Nona finds only chairs, a table, a light, and a locked door in the room. She uses a damaged chair to batter down the door, then arms herself with a broken metal chair arm and emerges into a corridor where masked soldiers are waiting with guns.

Nona thinks of Pash and becomes angrier, blaming Pash for the chain of events that led to people being shot and Hot Sauce being locked away. The soldiers shoot Nona again, but Nona gets back up despite bullets in her body, screams, and frightens the soldiers into retreating.

Nona runs down the corridor while more soldiers gather and someone orders disengagement. One soldier shoots her anyway, and Nona charges, screaming so violently that the soldiers recoil. Someone finally drops a tightening hood over Nona and pins her arms, effectively swaddling her the way Camilla once did during an earlier tantrum.

Once restrained in darkness, Nona begins trembling as her body realizes she has exhausted something enormous inside herself. From inside the hood, her mouth says, “Fool. You’re killing her.” Nona understands this as talking to herself, but the statement underscores that her outburst is destroying the body she inhabits.