The brass key left behind by Lei Nora turned out to be a gift from a friend—which completely surprised Duncan.
This piqued his great curiosity.
Who was this person, and for what purpose had they crafted that key? What was the nature of the key itself? And what was the vision of a "spaceship crashing to the ground and disintegrating in an explosion" that he saw after touching the key?
He was impatient to know the answers, and fortunately—the Frost Queen had not concealed what she knew but had candidly revealed:
"After I left the cathedral, I met a friend soon after. At that time, I was scheming to take control of power, often meeting with various people, or participating in public events, and that old man appeared at a fundraising meeting…