Serpent & Dove

Lou wakes to Manon stroking her hair. Paralyzed by Morgane’s poison, Lou refuses to eat. Lou now believes that Morgane will win and both the crown and the Church will fall. She hopes Reid, Ansel, and Coco can escape but is at peace with her own death. Manon asks where Lou escaped to, and Lou tells her about going to Cesarine, becoming a thief, and all the bad things she did. She finds out that the Chasseurs killed Manon’s sister, burning her at the stake. Manon believes Lou is the only one who can end the witches’ persecution. Lou promises not to try to escape.

On the night of the ritual, Manon and the maids put Lou in a ceremonial gown. When asked how she escaped last time, Lou reveals she gave up her life at the Chateau, her symbolic life, for her physical one. She tells Manon she can’t do the same now because she loves Reid and won’t give him up.

Later, Lou is told she has a visitor and is escorted to her mother’s chambers. She’s worried the “visitor” will be Reid but instead sees the terrified Archbishop, bound and gagged, sitting on a sofa. Morgane places Lou next to him.