PART FOUR: THE DARKENING - Chapter 27: The Gallery, Gregor Gains His Freedom; Chapter 28: Pyke Holds the Answers, The Wych-Kin Revealed, All Is Ended; Chapter 29: Aftermath Summary

In Chapter 27, haniel, Cathaline, and Alaizabel try to find the large room where the Rite of pthau'es'maik is taking place, but the cathedral is a maze of red, gold, and black. They had hidden Carver in a side room, bandaged, because he was too injured to be of help. Suddenly Thaniel falls to one knee, hit full-force with the wych-sense of what the world might become. The oceans will rise and flood the earth, releasing foul creatures from below. Then the Glau Meska will come, they will build temples of bone and sinew, and they...