A palace service corridor outside the chapel stairs. Servants freeze as a ritual bell tolls and Archbishop Vellor's proclamation spreads through the halls.

Eunha ducks into a narrow alcove between stacked linen baskets to check her notes and recalculate the timeline.

Eunha weighs the two disasters: leaving Lucien to the ritual or freeing him into the future she fears.

A servant workroom lit by one smoky lamp. Eunha turns panic into a messy escape checklist.

Eunha stages a linen crisis near the guard office as Captain Renn inspects dungeon schedules.

The stolen keys change hands from belt to apron while Renn is still trapped in the linen disaster.

Eunha secures food and a servant route using scraps of palace economy.

Marta catches Eunha altering a cleaning route and decides how much not to know.

Marta gives Eunha a final practical warning without asking what she is doing.

At the dungeon checkpoint, Eunha uses fake official language and guard superstition to clear the corridor.

Eunha slips away from the distracted guards and reaches Lucien's cell with the stolen keys.

Eunha tells Lucien the ritual has moved to tonight and offers escape, not rescue by force.

The cell opens. Eunha sets clear escape rules while Lucien tests freedom for the first time in years.

Eunha and Lucien slip past the trained guards while the fake lesson continues nearby.

The escape route turns into narrow maintenance stairs. Lucien's body starts failing from hunger and confinement.

The palace realizes something is wrong as Eunha and Lucien reach the old cistern route.

The cistern distorts sound and shadow. Azaroth begins pressing against Lucien through the seal.

Azaroth offers Lucien power to kill everyone blocking the escape. Eunha recognizes the surge and intervenes.

Eunha talks Lucien through a grounding exercise while Azaroth presses harder.

Captain Renn catches them at the cistern crossing just as Lucien regains control.

Lucien chooses not to kill Captain Renn. Renn sees the choice and hesitates.

Renn lets them pass, but the scramble knocks Eunha's notebook loose.

Lucien reads enough of Eunha's notebook to understand she knows events that have not happened yet.

Freedom is visible beyond the cistern gate, but Lucien's trust fractures over Eunha's knowledge of the future.