Felix and Giselle, two apprentices at the Silver Creek Toy Workshop, notice that the paint on the carousel figures is failing to cure, remaining tacky due to the town's pervasive resonance issue, evidenced by a strange metallic dust in their drying accelerant. They seek a non-conductive stabilizer from the nearby Ice Sculpture Workshop. They encounter Leo, who has found a perfectly resistant silver tuning rod that fell from a silent wind chime near the skating rink. The rod is used to non-invasively open the cold storage, where they retrieve the Cryo-Stabilizer Alpha, a material strong enough to resist the intention drain. Leo then discovers a set of silent, antique silver bells inside the shed, suggesting the sound calibration system is also compromised, linking their materials problem to the town's larger sonic crisis.