O ne of the soldiers detached himself from his gearbox on the wall, stomped 
into the corner, and picked up a metal basket filled with one of those peculiar 
chains Princess Nell had seen everywhere. He carried it to the throne, fished 
through it until he found the end, and fed the end into a hole on the side of 
the throne. In the meantime, a second
soldier had also detached himself from the wall and taken up a position on the 
opposite side of the throne. This soldier flipped his visor open to expose some 
sort of mechanical device in the space where his head ought to have been.