They go to visit Roland, only to find him still fixated by Maerlyn's Grapefruit. They regret not telling his father of the sphere, making him hand it over. Roland has placed his consciousness inside the sphere and finds his way to the Dark Tower and the Can'-Ka No Rey. He believes the Tower talks to him and witnesses the rose there, blacken and die. However it is revealed that the Crimson King was talking to him instead of the Tower and attempts to kill Roland, but before he can he leaps back out of the sphere's consciousness. It is revealed Justus is secretly working for Farson.