“Why can’t you be nice for once? Why can’t you at least pretend? I don’t think the world revolves around me but I’d bet yours doesn’t budge an inch!”

-Bernard

Annoyed by the mirror woman’s plea to stop being so cruel, Nil crushes Bernard’s hope of reuniting his body with his soul. There is nothing but disaster for the world when one or both has been corrupted by magic. His callous manner sets off a round of verbal warfare with the righteous Dimitri, enacting a scene that’s familiar enough to make Hilda realize that Nil is Isaac, the supposedly dead son of her friend Rosalind Gennari. Suddenly the bold and fearless woman seems to be terrified because the boy is dead. He should still be dead!

The appearance of Ebner Beiler reminds Bernard of the day he was dragged into the warehouse by puppet demons, frozen by some magic and kept alive like the rest until his corpse was needed. A burst of madness from Bernard has the wood of the warehouse erupting into greenery that drains life from the living. Nil uses their contract to lock him down and has Avery destroy the Infernal Machine with his air cannons. Puppet demons shield Ebner from the explosion but the loss of the Machine has him going through several, very verbal stages of grief. Now everyone knows he’s built himself a second Infernal Machine and it must stay hidden from Savio Gennari.