And the vision plays on, to show what approximately should have happened, if it had all gone as Nethys's walkthrough showed, of the best previous endings He'd reached, interpolated between pieces He was trying to combine for the first time -
- a world where Keltham had been more deeply wounded; where a more penitent Carissa returned to him; where Keltham warned Carissa less, before he bought her Wishes. They are far more estranged, after that, though still working together -
- Keltham descends on Absalom earlier, before his children can be ensouled, suspecting this to be his trope-given deadline as to when he should act -