In this scene, the young woman is talking to herself about her ambition to become an imperial dragon. She wonders why her brother, the younger emperor's brother, has formed a "friendship bound" with her. The elder emperor has forbidden the younger brother to be a dragonkeeper, so the two of them are bound to each other. The young woman wonders how they can remove the bound, but the elder emperor tells her that there is only one person who can do it. She is still alive, she says, and she would still rule the empire. She sees the fog dispersing and realizes that they have already run away.