At the community gathering, Sadoc speaks to the group but Marigold notes Nori’s absence before she returns. They all note that Harfoots left behind in the next migration will be carried on in hearts and memories. As those left behind are recalled, Poppy is fearful as denier members are recalled. Meanwhile, the Stranger appears to take what Nori left for him. Finding the page that Nori left, the Stranger reads it over the firefight. Nori noticed the fire jumping up nearby as the Stranger accidentally sets alight to the page. Fleeing the flames, the Stranger crashes into the camp amid the ceremony. Emerging while covered in tarp, the Stranger terrifies the group until he calls after Nori. The community is angered by Nori’s actions and the danger it brings to the group but Sadoc notes the Stranger’s origins are troubling. Nori defends her actions but is told that she is bringing trouble to the community and she is threatened by being “de-caravaned” but Sadoc defends her over her youth but orders that the Brandyfoots will be at the back of the Caravan. Marigold criticises Nori for her decisions and how it has threatened their family, noting how her need for a destiny could be her downfall. The Stranger watches in fear.

In Númenor, Elendil tells Isildur and Eärien about Galadriel and the former is excited by her arrival but the latter is troubled. Isildur wishes to defer the Sea Trial as his older brother did. However, Elendil notes that the past is dead and they either move on or die with it as there is nothing on the Western shores for them. Elendil insists that Isildur will take the Sea Trial while Eärien receives a letter saying she has been accepted into the Builders’ Guild and that her success is due to Isildur convincing her to re-apply, to Elendil’s surprise. Isildur has already left.

Galadriel visits Halbrand in the dungeons and notes that he doesn’t belong on the island but he notes that neither does she. However, Galadriel notes that he is more than he claims to be and reveals her finding from the Hall of Law and hands a scroll to him. Inside the scroll is a symbol matching his necklace, which Halbrand then claims he took from a dead man. Galadriel notes that the symbol belonged to a man in the Southlands who united many tribes under one banner and which could help defend them against a new evil threatening those lands. Galadriel notes that Halbrand is the missing King of the Southlands. However, Halbrand notes that the symbol belonged to one who swore a blood oath to Morgoth and that he is not the hero she seeks and that his family lost the war. Galadriel responds that is hers that started the war and that theirs was no chance meeting, not fate, nor destiny, but the work of something greater. She asks Halbrand to come with her to Middle-Earth and redeem both of their bloodlines. Halbrand notes that they are stuck on Númenor and that she is short an army but she reveals that that is another to change.