He leaves the cardboard cat costume in a heap on the restroom floor, wondering why he made it, why it took so much longer for him to figure out how to transform again than it did to figure out who he would be when he did and why he needed to hide his face, if Ladybug helped him, if Plagg left him.

He leaves the ring on a rooftop and sneaks through an access door he doesn't quite close and thinks about making a black cardboard colombina mask just to burn it, wondering why Ladybug sinks to her knees when she sees the ring, why she takes it and leaves without turning and without making a sound, who will replace him, who will feed Plagg if he won't.

He puts the ring back on in his bedroom, wondering if Ladybug chose him or if Plagg did, if this mask will prove as flimsy and ill-fitting as the others, whether this mask should be anything more than black face paint and a cat-ear headband over his own face as Adrien, whether Adrien himself is anything more than a life-size cardboard standee concealing nothing because there's nothing underneath or behind it after all.