At dawn in the rain, Leah silently leads the group to an ivy-hidden door that opens when Charlie invokes her name. They pass a dusty maintenance hall and the trolley terminal, where Radar retrieves her squeaky toy amid bones and dead monarchs. Hearing Hana’s wails, Charlie insists on confronting her and showing Leah something important.

In the square, Hana mourns Red Molly’s corpse. Charlie advances with Radar and shoots Hana twice through the brow crack, killing her. Eris claims vengeance by urinating on Hana’s body, recalling family slain by the giantess. Leah then beheads Hana in three strokes, and Iota heaves the head into the dry fountain.

They skirt the palace’s shifting rear and reach the sundial and pool. Charlie brings Leah to see Elsa’s decomposing body impaled in the water. Leah collapses in grief, balking at the idea that Elden could have ordered it, yet nods to kill the Flight Killer if Charlie falls. Time pressing, Charlie calls the others on.

Using Leah’s name, they open the palace; the whispering voices momentarily subside. They pass a glassed vault overflowing with gold and gems, then a vast kitchen where gray cooks reveal Pursey was taken by night soldiers. Leah grabs papers and a quill, and they push deeper inside.

Beyond a NO ENTRY door, they traverse a grand corridor to Leah’s parents’ reception hall, now fouled with rotten food, excrement, blood, and hanging corpses; Leah silently mourns. Proceeding into the immense nave with a damaged butterfly mosaic and three spires, they reach a golden platform lift. Taking turns at the wheel, they struggle to raise it as Leah writes: “We must go up to go down.”