"The labyrinth is bizarre," Dr. Lecter says. "It's accessed from a door in the side of the mountain, and in there, you can cross from one world to another by a series of interconnected doors. All these worlds exist somewhere, even the one with the giant metal bees, and the one where gravity worked sideways for us, so Noriko Ashhida and I had to climb desperately through an otherwise perfectly ordinary if rather grand living room. And when I visited the labyrinth with Bossuet Lesgle, we ended up in modern Paris, in the exact same spot where the café stood from which they ran their failed revolution. So, there is a certain sentience at work in the labyrinth, just as it is in whom the door brings, and when."