As Scarlet looks at Wolf’s unconscious body, a girl and a man run toward her. Thorne and Cinder have arrived and tranquilized Wolf, but as they try to drag Scarlet away from her attacker, she clings to Wolf. They ask Scarlet about her grandmother, and Scarlet realizes that this girl is “Princess Selene [...], the girl her grandmother had given everything to protect” (395). As they try to convince Scarlet to leave Wolf, she tells them that he’s “not like the rest” (396) and that they must take him with her. As they struggle to drag Wolf to their spaceship, more Lunar Operatives attack, but Cinder uses her tranquilizer gun to put them down. Scarlet rushes ahead to the captain’s seat and prepares to fly the ship out of harm’s way, but as she looks out cargo bay, she sees “Wolf’s prone body” on the ground, and “Linh Cinder and her friend [...] surrounded by seven Lunar operatives” (400).

Cinder “sense[s] the thaumaturge” (401), who “urg[es] her to stop running” and to “stand still and be captured” (401). Her human leg obeys, but her cyborg leg is immune to the command. Thorne pulls out a stolen gun, but the thaumaturge forces him to point it at Cinder.