Barnaby and Beatrice, twin apprentices in the municipal bakehouse, struggle with their crucial task of applying silver icing to the ceremonial star tarts. Barnaby finds his piping technique failing as the pastry vibrates, and Beatrice confirms a strange static sensation, linking the pastry instability to the wider resonance issues affecting town silver. Beatrice recalls the need for non-conductive dampening materials and retrieves a swatch of thick, charcoal-colored felt from the rejected packaging storage. By pressing the felt onto the tarts, they successfully absorb the localized vibration and stabilize the surface, allowing Barnaby to apply the silver icing correctly. This confirms that the resonance interference is affecting even the finest, most delicate organic and prepared materials, and that non-conductive felt is a universal counter-agent. They resolve the immediate tart crisis but realize the scope of the energy drain is far broader than previously understood.