S. and Sola are in the island where the Chateau is located and are talking to a group of workers who will help them with the mission. “‘You work for Vévoda,’ he says before he can stop himself, and the contempt in his tone is unmistakeable.” “But you’re about to pretend to work for him, which is not much different.” the man answers.

Meanwhile Jen is skeptical of the pages FXC sent her. Next to the following sentence she underlined: “Invisibly stage-manage the festivities”, she notes on the margins:

The pages. Think about that. She sent us the pages.

Arturo says she never read them.

Think go how many people would kill to read them. (OK – bad choice of words.)

No – it’s  a good one. Can’t forget that. have to be careful.

As S.’s journey and mission seems to be reaching an end, the reader gets a glimpse of how deep Jen and Eric are into the Straka mystery.