Phase 4, Parts 85, 86, 87, 88, 89 90, 91, 92 and 93 Summary

After a brief contemplation of Leigh-Cheri's own contemplation of her pyramid (see "Quotes", p. 229), narration shifts into the fairytale-like story of Bernard's being abandoned by his birth parents, adopted and renamed. At the conclusion of that story, narration then describes how Queen Gulietta orders that Max be compensated for not insisting on his right to take the throne, how Max gives half the money to Tilli and takes his half to Reno, and how he spends most of it gambling it into a small fortune. One day, while Tilli is visiting him, she discovers a newspaper article reporting on the machine-gunning death of Bernard Mickey Wrangle, killed while trying to escape police custody. Over breakfast, Max speaks to Tilli at length about the philosophical dangers of being a rule breaker like Bernard. Tilli tells him such talk is irrelevant...