Aileen Ritter, the niece of Cort, uses the armory key which she has stolen from him in order to enter the armory where the guns of the gunslingers are kept for when a boy comes of age. Entering, she takes a pair of guns as her own. Steven Deschain nearly died from the grenade used by Farson's men, but he was saved by Charles Champignon who now lays bleeding out on the floor. Steven manages to stop the bleeding by throwing gunpowder on his wounds and setting it alight with a match. Charles passes out from the pain.