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Joanna led them to another alcove off the chamber. When they all stood within, she passed her hand across a small, glowing gemstone set into its wall. An opaque crystal door slid up from the floor closing them in, and then S. Quentin felt the barest vibration as the entire alcove began to descend. Pulsing lights indicated, he presumed, the speed of their descent. And then the crystal door receded and he found himself in Joanna’s palace proper.