 During Ilse's visit to Duma Key, the father-daughter duo drive to a disused, overgrown section of the island, where colors seem unnaturally vivid, and Ilse becomes violently ill. Elizabeth Eastlake warns Edgar via telephone conversations that Duma "has never been a lucky place for daughters," and that his paintings should be sold to multiple geographically-distant buyers, lest their otherworldly power grow too concentrated or dangerous.Freemantle comes to learn that Duma Key's beach house has hosted many successful artists (including Salvador Dalí) during its eighty-year tenure, that Elizabeth Eastlake was, herself, a prodigious artist in her childhood, and that both Edgar and Wireman manifest pronounced psychic talents while on or near the island, seemingly stemming from their debilitating brain injuries.Freemantle's artworks become more vivid and distressing, featuring ship-and-seaside compositions whose vessel and mysterious red-cloaked passenger draw nearer to shore in each successive painting.