" Zi Yuan explained how she would revive an ""undead"" army of her own soldiers, buried beneath the wall, to fight against the Emperor: "When the Emperor built the wall, he buried his enemies underneath it and cursed their souls to hold it up for eternity.The dated story was an example of the ""portmanteau"" style (everything revolved around or was tied together by a single location, a fashionable foreign hotel in this case).Later on the ship""s deck with he smooth Lockert, Fran appears ashamed of her cultureless midwestern roots, although projects her insecurities by denigrating fellow traveling Americans - calling them "dreadful" - while Lockert adds hat they are also "snobs.They were to set off to the east, to the "single, solitary peak" of Lonely Mountain, to enter the locked Erebor fortress and end "the reign of the beast.