Disqualified or silenced? Politics proves deadlier than the crawl. The Hall of Masks grows restless. Lysandra Veil has been disqualified, and the champions are forced to wait as her replacement is summoned. Tempers flare, powers clash, and alliances begin to take shape in the uneasy pause between trials. Seventeen keeps her mask in place, but behind it, she wonders. Was Lysandra's removal justice, or politics? And when the new Contestant Five finally arrives, one glance is enough to tell her the real trial has only just begun.