The throne room - and the Queen - remain untouched as Yota fails to take the guardian witch, Yalya, down. Leigh-Mary hatches a plan, but it involves subjecting themselves once again to Yalya's mental onslaught. They re-enter the witch's mental plane, a cave designed to reduce victims to mindless brutes driven only by desire. But just as our heroes launch their coordinated attack, Yalya seemingly foils their one last shot. What will it take to defeat the powerful guardian witch?