Post-Human Family Matters... Wanda sits down with Vivian to discuss why she came through the Last Door. Vivian explains that she was processing the deaths of her mother (Virginia),[1] and her brother (Vin)[2] and had made progress, but encountered nightmares that reminded her of her greatest suffering. Wanda offers to enter Vivian’s dreamscape to root out the problem.
Wanda enters Vivian’s dreams to find Dreamqueen feeding off Vivian’s nightmares. Dreamqueen hungers for anguish and targeted Vivian thinking her synthezoid nature would provide constant misery for Dreamqueen's appetite. They battle back and forth in Vivian’s dreamscape until Wanda traps Dreamqueen inside a sphere of light. Wanda presents an offer to Dreamqueen - in return for Wanda’s mercy, she must free Vivian and stop preying on humanity’s suffering. Dreamqueen counters that she cannot live without other’s pain and Wanda offers her a sarmale seasoned with the pain of Wanda’s loss of her sons to sustain her. As Wanda removes Dreamqueen, Vivian appears and asks what she did to her. Wanda explains that she laced the sarmale with a transformation spell that will require Dreamqueen to consume bliss to survive instead of pain. However, Dreamqueen’s taste for bliss will disgust her.
Vivian awakens and notes that Wanda was successful in removing Dreamqueen. Wanda tells Vivian that she has her support as she continues to heal from her trauma. Vivian leaves and Darcy Lewis cleans up the Emporium. Wanda continues to wonder about Jarnette's Worry Stone and why it resists her magic. Wanda again prompts Darcy for the story behind her appearance through the Last Door, but Darcy still isn’t ready to talk about it.
At The Bar With No Name, a large fight is going on with Hippolyta announcing that Darcy Lewis "owes blood to the Bacchae" and threatening anyone who shelters her.
An Unlikely Forecast Storm comes to the Emporium to discuss the nature of Magneto's death with Wanda. Afterwards, Storm offers her help with anything Wanda might need in the future, and it happens that Wanda needs help obtaining an essential ingredient for the Emporium. Because of its location, two individuals of magical birthright must obtain it when it is not in bloom.
Wanda takes them to a bay cloaked in fog. Storm moves the fog to reveal a hidden island. The flowers they are looking for appear, but a large water spirit taking the form of a horse defends the island. During their fight with the spirit, Wanda prompts Storm to tap into the magic that her birthright holds. Storm succeeds and their powers synergize to bind the spirit. Defeated, the spirit yields to them and allows them to harvest the plant. Back at the Emporium, the pair share a cup of tea made from the plant retrieved from the island.
