Before they return to Santa Fe, Thielo returns to Rebecca's home and steals her copy of The King In Yellow despite the fact that some of her friends are camping out there waiting for her. Eventually they fall asleep waiting, giving Thielo a chance to sneak in and liberate the tome.
Upon their return there's nothing to do for the day - Rebecca has been sedated for transit and won't be good for anything until tomorrow. She's being kept at the Ranch in the "comfy" cell - something like a hotel room you can't get out of.
Esteban spends the afternoon making contact with a woman named Moonbeam, who is a painter. After they talk for a bit she decides she wants him to pose nude for her. The bemused Esteban agrees, clearly not expecting to spend the next three hours in uncomfortable positions. But he does. Then she runs off to "The Laughing Owl Gallery Sunday Night Crystal Awareness Group", bringing Esteban along after he asks. There they try to open their third eyes. One of the participants says Esteban reminds her of a big chihuahua. Esteban doesn't notice any verifiable third eye opening, however.
That night, Alexandra has a dream in which she wanders the streets of Carcosa in the company of a strange man. At the end, she realize that he's her husband, which is weird because he doesn't look anything like Thielo. In the morning, she verifies with Thielo. "I'm married to you, right?" Esteban has a dream in which he is the customs inspector inspecting mummies as they're shipped across the border. They keep getting up and wandering around, though, and he has to tazer them. It just goes to show that Esteban is more of a nutcase than Alexandra.
Monday is interrogation day. Esteban is appointed as the actual interrogator because of his mojo. However, he doesn't use any all day, which is later commented upon. Rebecca is confused and basically cooperative. She keeps asking if the group is part of the government, the FBI, the NSA, whatever. Every now and then she protests that she's a citizen and they can't do this to her. Esteban will only say "I really can't say" about most of her organizational questions.
He does tell her about the King in Yellow, that it's some sort of possession thing and it's bad and makes people say "Have you seen the yellow sign?" The thing that most convinces her is that she knows that the yellow sign is in fact the yellow sign, despite there being no picture of it in the play (which is where she believes she read it). At one point, a small fish appears in the maple syrup (she gets served breakfast) for no apparent reason. Later there's a smell of burning meat and leather, which causes Esteban to go into the bathroom looking for her tazed terrier (it isn't there).
Esteban also learns to use the Conclave Tarot, and reveals a picture of the King in Yellow as the Emperor, a recognizable Carcosa as the World, and the Fool is a sort of marionette.
The end decision is that Rebecca is innocent (or at least clueless) and that they should figure out something to do with her. They could break the taboos of the King in Yellow, if they knew what those were. In the end being psychoanalized is guessed as a likely one, and they send for one of the Inquisition psychiatrists (though not "the meat lady").
In the afternoon, Thielo and Orchid start working on translating a Greek text from a man who claimed to be a sort of "god-observer" who seems to have recognized archetypes (though he called them gods) in people. He claims to have heard of a ritual by which a god might be transferred from one person to another, or even into a statue or something like that. However it takes Thielo and Orchid the rest of the night to find the ritual, embedded in the differences between two versions of a story about sheep. Here it is translated from the Greek:
Take a rod of pure silver 1 1/3 cubits in length and engrave upon it "Elipises Sargasso". Take a pot of pure iron 1 1/4 gallons in capacity and engrave upon it "Mellicent Concors". Pour into it 1 1/5 drams of pure mercury. Write upon the mercury with the feather of an owl "Otiempo Occuls" and pour upon the mercury 1 1/6 pints of the avatar's blood. Mix with the silver saying "Kanbane" every 1 1/7 rotations, until you have spoken eight times. Take a peacock feather and dip it in the mixture. Anoint the forehead of the recipient while saying "Dok". Dip a lion's paw into the mixture and anoint the forehead of the recipient while saying "Tek". Finally, take the hand of an artist and dip it in the mixture. Use it to anoint the recipient's forehead while saying "Oliolsen". The recipient must now throw the rod, the pot, the feathers, the paw, and the hand into the sea while saying "I claim all these and more" while the avatar stands with his back to the process.
This is generally hailed as a solution to the whole Rebeccan conundrum, especially as the avatarness could maybe go into a statue. Alexandra gets to work on a statue which can toss something into the ocean. Orchid opines that the initial step to set this up is a proxy ritual between the avatar and the target (which leads to some research on proxy rituals, something the Inquisition has decent files on). Various people start to gather the components for the ritual. There's also some confusion about whether the artist's hand may be attached to the artist or not, and who constitutes an artist. It's decided that the hand is not specified to be detached, so maybe they'll just find an artist willing to be tossed whole into the ocean.