Serpent & Dove

Reid angrily bursts into the room while Lou bathes and then is immediately embarrassed. As he watches her wash her hair, Reid asks Lou about her scars. She avoids telling him the truth. Reid reports that the Chasseurs failed to catch Andre and Grue but have successfully apprehended Bastien St. Pierre for killing one of Tremblay’s guards. Lou panics when she learns the sentence will be hanging. She knows she must use magic to help Bas escape.

Reid leaves on business. Burning a candle to mask her smell, Lou magically puts Ansel into a trance so he’ll take her to Bas’s cell. Trading her pleasant memories of Bas, she knocks the guards unconscious. Then she takes Bas’s memories of herself and Coco. He collapses, and she puts the keys to the cell next to him. She wipes Ansel’s memories of what has happened and then collapses from the effort. When she wakes, Bas is gone. She moves a groggy Ansel into the nearby library, and makes it look as if they are engaged in Bible study as she hears the Chasseurs discover their prisoner is missing.

Reid and Jean Luc burst into the room, where Reid smells magic. Lou thinks she’s doomed, but Coco saves the day by showing up to report that Lou and Ansel didn’t properly wash themselves after their visit to the infirmary.