Portal

- Papa, there's something else I'd like to talk about in private. – she said in a barely audible voice only to him, when the magicians began to disperse. – I suggest we go to your office. It will be an ideal place where no one will interfere with us.

The king replied in the affirmative, and Thea, with her retinue and the Crown Prince, followed the king into his study. The very office she had seen in her dream, when she witnessed how her body could separate soul and mind from flesh.

Stopping at a massive wooden door, Horel took out his magic wand and waved it several times, creating a micro-vortex around the keyhole. 

At the same time as the king lowered his wand, hundreds of tiny spiders began to crawl out of the crack of the castle, rolling on top of each other and merging into a larger spider with terrible long furry paws.

The king raised his hand and lured the spider to him, as if it were his pet.