Summarizer: Chapter 36-38

In chapter 36, the girls visit the realms, and though Gemma feels they should go back, they all insist on staying for a while. Previously, Felicity got Pippa and Ann to help her try and sacrifice a deer so they could enter the realms and Gemma was refusing to take them. In the realms, the huntress grows into one of Circe's creatures. It tries to take Felicity and Gemma pulls her away. On the river, Ann is staring at her reflection in the water and inching closer and closer to the surface like a spell. Gemma pulls her away and Ann loses her beauty and becomes herself again. Pippa is on a boat, stuck in the middle of the river and then the boat tips over. The water closes over her and Gemma sees Pippa's face, looking the same as in the vision she had during the waltz.

Gemma leaves Pippa there and gets Ann and Felicity out of the realms. Gemma has Kartik bring Pippa's stiff body to her bedroom. Gemma runs for Mrs. Nightwing who calls the doctor. Gemma must enter the realms again and she gives Felicity her amulet just in case she doesn't come back. In the realms, Gemma puts her hand on the Runes, giving her new stronger powers. Her mother turns into one of Circe's creaturs and as Gemma shout that she forgives her mother, the thing grows weaker. Gemma smashes the Runes.

Gemma breaks the ice and pulls Pippa out of the water. She is pale and cold. She tries to take Pippa out of the realms, but Pippa questions what her life will become, she will marry Bartleby Bumble, a man who is far too old for her that her parents chose. She takes berries and eats them, her color is back and she is vibrant, but she must stay in the realms forever because she ate the food. Back in the real world, they must bury Pippa, who everyone believes died from her epilepsy.