Belladonna

Content Warning: This section features discussions of death by suicide.

After her lessons, Signa goes to find Lillian’s garden. She asks Sylas for his help, and the two ride horses to the garden. 

Signa rides Lillian’s horse to the woods where the garden is. When she arrives at the locked garden gate ahead of Sylas, she meets Lillian’s spirit, who is looking at a patch of belladonna berries. Signa takes this as a signal to eat the belladonna and gain Death’s powers so she can pass through the locked gate.

When Signa eats the belladonna, Death arrives. She asks him if she can use more of his powers. Death confirms that, though he does not know the extent of her powers, Signa does have powers like him when she exists in the space between life and death. Death tells Signa that life and death are a balance, and when one life is taken, another must be spared. On the night Signa killed Magda, the life of Blythe was spared. Signa asks if she can walk through walls like she knows Death can, and he tells her that his powers are based on intention, so if she believes she can walk through the gate, then she can.