Not much doing in Amber, since Oberon & the rest are out. So they head to NY to meet Lois.
Fu tracks down Pauline to a dance club, where she talks to the technician. He asks her to mentor him. She agrees, takes him out, and throws him through the air, teaching him to fly.
Elliot does Ethel (she helps him through the stressful period of being questioned by the police, and having his buddies missing).
Elliot mediates to meet Charon and emerges in the Styx. Charon gives him scissors to cut Lois' bonds to life. He takes a trip and ends up in the toilet of Lois's house.
Pauline is spooked, says a Chinese word to Egg and flies away. He flies after her, but is attacked by a wall. He finds himself on Lois' carpet.
Henry and Mki (formerly MCM) ask Lois to take them all to the pattern. They get in their car and drive around, coming back to the house. She leads them down to the cellar, where they see the pattern. Everyone walks the pattern.
Egg asks the pattern to take him to Pauline.
Elliot asks the pattern to take him to the place where he can cut a swirling knot of pattern threads he saw inside Lois.
Mki realizes that the pattern repeats like a fractal, and asks to get to the central, primary and primal pattern.
Henry just leaves through the door.