With the Carnivorous Plants box tucked under his arm, Galahad goes back to the door of the Lego world and lets them back out into the hall. There are plenty more doors, but one of them is solidly made, braced with iron, like a door from his world. The handle is an iron ring, wrought to look like a snake coiled around a single stem of lily.

He puts out his hand and takes the ring, and pulls. The door creaks open.

Inside there is a single stone pedestal, and on it a long, slim, sword-shaped object covered with a sheet of gauzy with cloth. Galahad lifts the cloth to reveal a leather scabbard with a reinforced bronze mouth, affixed to a sword-belt. The belt is slender, almost daintily made from white hide; the buckle is silver. It looks almost like a girdle, the kind a maiden might give for a favor.