Kaela "awakens" to find herself being treated as if she is royalty, and being called by her true-name: Emerald-Eyes. Once she looks out the window and sees that she is in the City of Hands – not ruins, but a thriving city – she surrenders to the dream, being treated in a manner quite unlike her life as a slave. However, things darken. This is, after all, a dream of the palace before it became the horror that she, as a slave, had experienced before – or is that in the future? And soon the dream presents a vision of what may have happened to bring such horrors about