Tannhäuser wandered through the deserted pleasure gardens. The rare people he happened to meet eluded his queries, and yet everyone appeared oddly keen to propose various distractions to him, which he quickly surmised strongly suggested that they had been instructed to do so. Strict orders had evidently been issued that he should be kept in the dark as to Venus’s whereabouts.
What on earth could those Mysteries be that no one wanted him to attend? To answer the question, he had to find Dado. Ming Soo, the twins had indirectly told him, would know where he was.