Using telepathy, Lulli communicates to Tarot that she is a prisoner in Sir John Peckham's vaults and that she has been turned into a 6-inch high chalk statue. Tarot races to her rescue, but someone else is waiting for him.

Tarot and Ceribraun play out the final moves in a dangerous and complex game of double-cross.

Tarot meets up with Chas and Mikki, a brother and sister, who live in a studio over an old London street market. Chas is a photographer, and Mikki a freelance journalist. Mikki is worried about a series of inexplicable accidents in the market, although Chas is inclined to laugh the whole thing off..