View source for Marielda 12: The Killing of the King-God Samothes By The Traitor Prince Maelgwyn Pt. 2

====Exploring====
Everyone hears a clunk as the guest rooms reattach to hallway. Castille picks the lock to her door and makes it into the hall, where she finds Maelgwyn. He tells her to stay in her room, but she argues, and he soon relents. They head back to the train station together.

Sige hears their conversation, and decides to break down the door to his room to get out. By the time he makes it outside, they’re gone, and he heads down the hall the other way. He enters a big dining hall containing five thrones and a glass dance floor, beneath which there is magma and the sound of hammering. From the view from a window, he can see that the entire structure is rotating somehow. 

Edmund and Aubrey both pick the locks to their rooms as well, and run into each other in the hallway. They let Ethan out, and not long after Lance Nobles Iris and Orchid emerge from their rooms, as well. Orchid also has a fancy new outfit. She asks Hitchcock and Aubrey lots of questions, clearly frustrated. Aubrey tells her,  “You don’t really know what’s going on here,” but she continues to question why she should trust a bunch of criminals. Aubrey tries to just leave, and Orchid grabs her. “You know something,” she says.

Aubrey tries to explain the situation while keeping it in vague terms. Hitchcock makes the argument that everything that’s happened with the clothes and such should make it clear that they’re supposed to be here, and Orchid reluctantly accepts this. She says that Lance Noble Iris has been to one of these High Sun Day events before, but she never has; asks why, if they were expected, they attacked the Golden Lance on the train; and eventually just goes back to her room.

Castille and Maelgwyn enter an elevator. He awkwardly complements her new look. The elevator lets them out in a big suite bedroom—it’s Samot’s room, when he wanted Samothes’, because the elevator operates by taking you wherever you’re supposed to be. Maelgwyn leaves his mask and crown there, and they get back into the elevator. 

Iris enters the room Sige is in, but leaves him alone. Sige leaves and reunites with Aubrey and Hitchcock. He sends the Hitchcocks ahead to look for Castille and Maelgwyn so that he can talk with Aubrey. Once they've gone, he asks if he can see her gun, and discusses her new willingness to do violence. He shows her the part of the gun where the initials of his now-scrapped boat can still be seen: H.K.C., ''[[Kingdom Come (boat)|His Kingdom Comes]]''.

The Hitchcocks arrived at the station to find the train gone. As Aubrey and Sige rejoin them, another train starts to pull in. The station they're in has five statues, depicting the [[Deities of Hieron|five primary gods]], and they hide behind them. (Aubrey, Sige, and Edmund hide behind Samot, [[Samol]], and Samothes respectively.) A whole bunch of people, of all kinds, from all over, emerge from the train. Aubrey, SIge, and the Hitchcocks join the procession into the throne room.

A [[Samaantine|person made of geometric rock]], whose presence exudes an aura of dominance, enters the throne room. Then [[Severea|a bald woman in a flowy blue dress]], whose presence has a strange effect of making any action taken feel almost involuntary. They take seats on two of the thrones.

Castille and Maelgwyn arrive in Samothes’ room. Samothes puts a hand on Maelgwyn’s shoulder and tells him, “Not yet.”