Chapter 30

Feyre returns to her father's manor and distributes money to the impoverished villagers. She encounters Isaac Hale with his new wife, feeling nothing for him beyond gratitude. Nesta reveals that she was immune to Tamlin's glamour and discovered the truth about Feyre's abduction; she even hired a mercenary to attempt a rescue through the wall into Prythian, revealing her fierce love beneath her icy exterior.

Feyre returns to her father's manor after her time in the Spring Court. She distributes silver and gold to the poor villagers, ignoring townspeople's attempts at conversation. She encounters Tomas Mandray by the fountain and later Isaac Hale with his new wife; while Isaac has matured into manhood through love, Feyre feels only gratitude toward him. At the manor, preparations for a ball in her honor are underway. While digging in the garden, Nesta confronts Feyre, revealing that she resisted Tamlin's glamour through sheer force of will and discovered the truth—the painted foxglove on the table fragment, the claw marks. Nesta hired a mercenary with money from Feyre's wolf pelt and traveled two days through winter woods to the wall, attempting to rescue Feyre from Prythian, though she could not find a way through. This disclosure exposes Nesta's fierce love beneath her cold, bitter exterior. Feyre learns that Nesta rejected Tomas Mandray because he would not have helped her save Feyre. The sisters spend time together painting in a quiet room while the household prepares for the ball. That evening, Feyre observes her father and Elain together contentedly, and Nesta expresses her lingering hatred for their father, whom she blames for not fighting to save their mother and for his passivity during their poverty, contrasting his inaction with Feyre's devotion to Tamlin.