Marten contacts the Crimson King through Black 13 at Le Casse Roi Russe. He reports of Steven Deschain's return, news of the people living in The Shaved Mountains as well as the Pink Sphere, which is being delivered to its chosen location. The Crimson King is displeased when he learns Roland passed his test of manhood. Interrupted by three guardsmen who come to arrest him on Steven's orders he turns them into dogs leaving Gilead through a doorway he draws on the wall. Roland's mother is there when they leave; he tells her he will strive to forget her face.