At the last moment he awakens at the church and thinks it all a dream yet then resolves that he knew him all along, saying: "For I knew him now. Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him — they had changed him for every other eye, but not for mine". Then the church disappears and seemingly the narrator now stands on the shore of the Lake of Hali. Then death seemingly comes: "And now I heard his voice, rising, swelling, thundering through the flaring light, and as I fell, the radiance increasing, increasing, poured over me in waves of flame. Then I sank into the depths, and I heard the King in Yellow whispering to my soul: 'It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God!'".