[Past the curtain is a small auditorium audience of empty seats. It’s inside the palace after all, so it can’t be as big as the Emperor wishes it was, but it is enough. In the back of the auditorium there is a door. A magnificent door, quite large and covered in gold filigree, but encrusted in organic-looking crystals. It is cold to the touch, whether you actually try to open it or not, as if it leads outdoors into some frozen wasteland. It can be opened, though it is heavy.]