After the first art class ends, Rhys arrives at the gallery and holds the door for the departing children and families. The families react with awe, while Rhys greets them warmly. Feyre is covered in paint from the class, and she explains that Ressina fared worse after one child used magic to make a floating paint bubble that burst against Ressina's face.

Feyre and Rhys look over the children's paintings. One painting, made by a young faerie whose parents died in the attack on Velaris, depicts the violence and horror the child remembers. Although the child asked Feyre to throw it away, Feyre wants to preserve it in her future office so she and Rhys never forget what they are rebuilding for.

The mood lightens when Rhys notices another painting: a boy's imagined memory of getting the puppy he wanted for Solstice, with his parents placed in the doghouse while the boy and dog live in the house. Feyre reveals that this same boy created the paint bubble, and Rhys jokes about the trouble Feyre is facing as a teacher.

Feyre asks Rhys to walk her home for lunch, and after telling Ressina she will return later, Feyre leaves the gallery with him. As they walk through the Rainbow toward the town house, Feyre reflects on how strange and precious it feels to wake up excited for her life, her work, Rhys, and Velaris, even though major problems remain with the Illyrians, the human queens, and the human world.

Unable to fully express the feeling aloud, Feyre tells Rhys through their bond that he makes her deeply happy and that she is grateful for his presence in her life. Rhys openly weeps, answers that he feels the same, and promises they will face whatever comes together while enjoying their future. They affirm their love, their shared vow, and their hope as they walk home toward what awaits them.