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During a talent show performance, Donut and her allies execute an elaborate escape plan using charm spells to distract the audience. As the performance reaches its climax with velociraptors dancing on stage, Signet—a naiad bound by ancient pacts—sacrifices herself by cutting her throat, deliberately breaking a magical seal and triggering catastrophic supernatural consequences that force the evacuation.

The chapter opens with Donut performing on stage, charmed by a potion that amplifies her charisma. She sings a melancholic song to guitar accompaniment provided by Britney, affecting everyone in the room with a minor charm spell that focuses their attention entirely on the stage. Big Tina the dinosaur then takes center stage, her wand recharged by Donut, and casts The Recital—a spell that makes the audience feel compelled and happy to watch. Two stagehands raise a painted fabric backdrop while thirty velociraptors in hand-sewn sea creature costumes (along with Mongo and Kiwi) emerge to dance, creating a chaotic spectacle. The charm spells' effects are deliberately maintained to distract hunters and crawlers while Carl's party prepares their escape. Vrah, either immune to the charms or spotting Signet glowing at the room's edge, begins pushing toward the stage to expose the plan. Signet, growing brighter as her magical tattoos spin faster, asks Carl for a knife. She reveals her regrets: never saying goodbye to Grimaldi and not being the one to kill Imogen. She then cuts her own throat deliberately, tearing open a rift in reality as she is pulled into the Nothing by some dark entity. Her blood and tattoos remain behind, spiraling into a growing tornado of ethereal energy. A warning appears: the seal has been broken, the Butcher's Masquerade has failed, and the chamber's protection is gone. The three judges and Chaco vanish. Carl marks Vrah with the ring of divine suffering, deploys smoke curtains, and signals the escape to begin.