"Goro," he says, half-laughing in incredulity, but he leaves it there. "What would you do about the Palace?" he asks instead. "Wouldn't I have noticed when it, like... I don't know. Went away. Like mine did." He doesn't know exactly what happened to it, but he could feel it starting to come apart even by the time he fell asleep.

"That would've been funny," he says reflectively. "Two hundred cops caught in a vanishing Palace."