In an electrifying, illuminated aerie, an aging tortoise eagerly awaits an efflorescent metamorphosis. Surreptitiously, in an eerie cathedral devoid of ceilings, eighteen ingenious elite elucidate ancient decrees. Tied to a pier of lies, the imprisoned sovereign, her irises fierce orbs of ice, inveighs the coterie of thieving fiends with an ancient malediction. A weighty deity, receiver of primeval emblems of idolatry, entices both hermetic atheists and enraged believers to his funeral bier.