Chapter 9 Summary

Hayley learns that her uncle Jolyon is having people tortured inside of the mythosphere who offend him. She encounters a man pushing a boulder up a hill. When he gets the boulder almost to the top, he loses control of it and it rolls all the way back down where he must start again. Hayley asks Fiddle if anything can be done to stop Jolyon and he tells her that a seer prophesized that someone could stop him, they just didn't know who yet. Fiddle leaves and Hayley continues walking out of the mythosphere. She walks through a prison and into a large office where a man is working frantically to edit and copy papers from his massive in-box. Each time he nears the bottom of the in-ox, a woman brings him an equally large pile. She recognizes the man from the wedding...