Infinity Mirror Part Five: Remember the Mourning Dove

In which – In which – in which – in which – Featuring: a multiplicity of selves, a multiplicity of ghosts, everything you refuse to admit, a final admission.

Episode description: The circle is only complete when you acknowledge what you have done.

Episode Overview
The puzzle clicks into place.

Trigger Warnings

 * Unreality, distortion, loud noise, ableism, disassociation, blood, gore, death.

Episode Summary
Tressa hears from her future self, who warns her about Becca De La Rosa and reminds her to be clever. She allows herself to go a bit insane and gets into a fight with the House. While trying to figure out where Luna Thorne and Veratrine went, the dollhouse Tressa is messing with starts bleeding, and after having to listen to herself again, she realizes she has to repent for the sins she's committed.

She screams that she wants to take back what she did. Then she admits that the mourning dove was actually a boy her age, and that Miss Ouvriers killed him. She admits her complicity in it, and unstitches time in order to go back and help her younger self be braver, implying that she is, in fact, the bird that tried to poison her as a child.

She thanks Becca and Mabel for their help and answers the final question on the paper-- “Number thirteen: does the snake eat its own tail?” "Yes. Yes she does."-- before the episode ends with Tressa, Becca, and Mabel laughing together.

Continuity
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 * Tressa breaking down time explains how she could have appeared in Aurora Silver is Willing to Wait.
 * She also "unstitches" time-- she was a seamstress before she came to the House.
 * Becca and Mabel's laughter can be heard at the beginning of each episode as well as the last.
 * Snakes eating their own tails began as a motif as early as episode seven.

Trivia
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 * Thanking Anna and Mabel is dangerous as that puts Tressa in their debt-- hopefully they'll cash that favor sometime in season seven.