Royal retrieves some chess pieces from a box: a king, queen, and pair of rooks in stainless steel, and a pawn, rook, bishop, knight, and queen in clear glass. She helps Castle set them out in a square-within-a-square configuration.

The glass pawn goes directly in front of Vampire Two, with the knight just past it, and a steel rook beyond that; the glass rook goes to his right, the glass bishop to his left, and the glass queen behind him. The four possible promotion targets thereby form a square with Vampire Two in their center. The outer square of steel pieces is completed by a queen on his right, a king on his left, and a second rook behind him. Royal sits down behind the second rook as soon as she's placed it.