Now married to a prince and with her own daughter, Snow White visits her stepmother in her locked room once every new moon. Every time, Snow White tells her a new way in which she might brutally kill her. On this visit, her stepmother asks Snow White what she plans to do about her husband, who she thinks has eyes for her seven-year-old daughter. Snow White refuses to listen but secretly the fear eats away at her until she finally decides to consult her stepmother’s mirror to learn the truth. 

When she arrives at the locked room, a woman named Lady Heron is already waiting for her there for her own appointment with the mirror. Other wealthy women regularly exchange coins for visits, and Snow White is glad to have some money to hide from her husband. She decides to visit the mirror another time and go down to the village to buy a cloak for her daughter, but the gatekeeper won’t let them leave on her husband’s orders. She revisits her stepmother, who spells her to remember ingredients for an enchantment they will need to escape the castle. Frustrated, Snow White goes back to the mirror and it confirms her worst fears. Her daughter and Lady Heron are waiting for her outside the room, and she treats both harshly, sending them away and giving Lady Heron the list of ingredients for the spell. She then sequesters herself in her room for a few days until Lady Heron returns with the ingredients as payment, and she allows her to go back to see the mirror.

Waiting outside for Lady Heron, Snow White is overcome with jealousy and rushes in to interrupt, only to see the lady bent over in pain with a hammer in her hand. The mirror attempts to make her leave, but Lady Heron resists and suddenly finds herself on the ground among shattered glass. Lady Heron collapses in a corner, bleeding to death from a glass shard, finally having broken the mirror and its insidious manipulation. The mirror still whispers in Snow White’s ear, telling her to go frame her stepmother for the lady’s death, and in fury she runs to confront her.

Her stepmother transforms into a raven and plucks a piece of glass out of Snow White’s cheek, freeing her from the mirror’s influence. The princess finally realizes that her stepmother only wants to help her and allows her to create a spell that temporarily transforms her and her daughter into ravens. They all escape the castle and live together in a safe haven.