If Pakhet’s analysis is correct, Smith forced Hunter to accept the intruder as part of her existing logic by drawing it with reference to the stories under way—Kyriakos’s shark, Athenais’s magic room, Bekele’s visions—and the Chamber of Isis became an open door through which Smith might dance and do his worst. His worst in this case was Hunter’s exhaustion and death but not, seemingly, her defeat, therefore the result is a no-score draw. Though what the prize was is still unclear.