Galadwen and Sylvanas meet Bloom thanks to the former being able to detect Bloom's apparition on account of her powerful magical signature. Galadwen offers Bloom a way to return home—first to Silvermoon's orb, which is connected to Galadwen's own realm Alpheim, where there's a connection to Magix. During the journey, the trio do some cultural exchange in an effort to recruit Bloom, who is revealed to be the actual Aspect of Fire, to their side. Bloom, thinking of protecting her young daughter from the Legion's newest, insane lieutenant Eudora Budhartil, accepts and makes a blood pact with Galadwen. This reveals that Bloom is pregnant with Trisha, so the pact also extends to her as well.
Tropes:
- Epigraph: Subverted in the sense that all chapters prior, the prologue included, open with a quote or bit of dialogue. This one doesn't, implying that the meaning of the third chapter's epigraph still applies. Since Bloom already met Galadwenl, the only other relevant thing that happens is Galadwen's accidental bond with Trisha through her mother. In other words, the "starting point" might be not what it seems at first glance.
- Foreshadowing: Bloom discovers that she's pregnant with Trisha through her blood pact with Galadwen, meaning that her youngest daughter is also bound to Elune's chosen. It belies Trisha's superior importance in terms of destiny than her mother's.
- How We Got Here: The first four chapters are devoted to partially explaining why Altalune and Trisha have arrived at the conclusion that taking drastic measures is the only way to prevent Altalune's nightmare in the prologue from happening. Galadwen and Sylvanas exchange relevant information about their respective dimensions with Bloom; that conversation culminates in Bloom striking an alliance with Galadwen and Sylvanas about Queen Daphne's eerily similar backstory. It's partially revealed how the Oðrsson sisters get involved—Trisha, an unborn fetus in her mother's womb, unknowingly gets included in Galadwen and Bloom's pact.
- Meanwhile Scene: Right as Bloom is starting her journey to Silvermoon with Sylvanas and Galadwen, the narration cuts to Queen Daphne and Sky interrogating Yoshinoya, whom they suspect of kidnapping Bloom. After he proves too stubborn to tell the truth (or, well, too surprisingly innocent of the deed to know what's going on), Daphne executes him. She comforts herself and Sky by adding that, if Bloom had died, the Flame would have returned to her or gone to baby Altalune.
- Mirror Character: Discussed. During one of their snarky spars, Sylvanas reveals her backstory to Bloom, who immediately picks on the similarities with her sister's own tragedy. Both Queen Daphne and the Banshee Queen have had their beloved homelands destroyed and been cruelly killed in battle by insane, evil seconds in command of greater-scope villains, who then raised them as bodiless spirits. On her part, Sylvanas feels an instant kinship for this stranger and resolves to meet Daphne someday. This not only opens paths for a friendship but also highlights how Queen Daphne is as prone as Lady Sylvanas to take extremist, drastic measures for problem-solving—something mentioned in the nymph's musings in the third chapter.
- Regular Caller: Bloom learns that it's the Burning Crusade that is behind the attacks on Eraklyon's cities she was investigating the chapter prior. She excuses herself from the conversation to go silently brood about the unending stream of fighting dimensional menaces that has been the Winx's lives up until this point; made worse by the fact they now have families and want a calm, safe dimension to raise their daughters in. Yet, when she emerges from her bath, she accepts forging an alliance with Galadwen because she now has much more to lose.
- Role-Playing Game 'Verse: Bloom inexplicably stops feeling fatigued moments after entering Quel'Danas. World of Warcraft has a mechanic that allows characters to get an XP bonus after spending some time at a city, garrison, or inn because they feel rested there. In Bloom's case, she's been traveling non-stop for many weeks (normal state) but ends her journey at Undercity, from where she teleports via orb to Silvermoon (rested state).
