Envoy visits Arch-Inquisitor Melchizedek at the Temple, and proposes her idea of how to bring a quick end to the war by going back to Fortunatis and getting "Deus Ex Machina" (the Sifras artificial entity there) to shift "probability", disrupting magic and weather around Nagai and Babel. Melchizedek is dubious of this plan, and updates Envoy on what is known of the boomer's possible location, and theories behind its effects. Envoy requests the assistance of a Dream Mage from Melchizedek, in hopes of contacting Morpheus for help.