كما يقول العنوان ، يصل Nicci إلى The People's Palace ويستقبله Anne و Nathan ( Confessor ). أخبرتهم أنها هناك لرؤية قبر بانيس راهل ، أنها قد تعرف لماذا كان ذوبان. أين سمعت هذه المعلومات؟
في ملاحظة جانبية ، كنت أؤدي الكتب الصوتية للسلسلة. لذا ، إذا كانت هذه الإصدارات مختصرة ، فإن ذلك سيكون منطقيًا ، لأنني أواجه مشكلات تذكر عندما ظهرت راشيل على Keep's With the Box ، أو عندما غادرها Jebra. على هذه الملاحظة ، من الممكن جدًا أيضًا أن أنسى تلك الأحداث.
في الفصل 58 من فانتوم ، تذهب نيشي إلى القبر مع ناثان حتى ترى أولًا يذوب:
*At last Nathan reached a set of double doors with guards standing before them. He gestured and the men opened the pair of white doors.
Beyond was a wall of white stone that looked as if it had partly melted. "Have you been in there?" she asked the prophet.
"No," he admitted. "At my age I try to stay out of tombs as much as I can."*
وبعد ذلك بقليل في نفس الفصل
*Such spells contained Subtractive Magic. That was what was causing the walls to melt. Containing them by walling the place over with special stone had slowed the process greatly, but had not halted it entirely.
"Well?" Nathan asked, poking his head in through the melted hole. "Any ideas?"
Nicci stepped out, brushing off her hands. "I don't know. I don't think there's any imminent danger, but this involves dark things so there's a chance I'm wrong. I think it would be best to shield it behind an invocation of threes."*