Part 7, Chapters 5-8 Summary

In chapter five, authorities arrive in Palomo Grove to find it almost completely deserted. Tesla, Hotchkiss, and Grillo enter the cave with Witt, even though Hotchkiss insists that the journey will be very dangerous. Grillo suffers from claustrophobia on the way down. They discover Buddy's corpse in front of a section of caverns flooded by water and Hotchkiss wants to turn back but Tesla insists they continue. They are suddenly caught by the current and Witt is killed, but as they escape the water, the Jaff emerges, now once more just Jaffe. He asks why they have come, and Tesla convinces him to come back with them to the surface to try and stop the Iad Uroburos from invading to cosm.

In chapter six, a massive earthquake strikes Palomo Grove as the group exits the fissures. They reach a...