The next morning, the sparrow man comes to the workshop to bring back the crown. The sparrow man asks if anyone else has seen him bring the crown back the day before, and prilla says no. Aidan tells him that he asked him to fix the crown and bring it back when he was done, and that's why he didn't do it. He also says that the scrap metal fairy came to his workshop to pick up the crown, but that she melted it down and sold it to a scrap dealer. This makes a lot of sense, since the scrap dealer could have sold the crown to someone else, but aidan doesn't care.