There is no-- Oh! Wait, this mysterious tome can serve as a mirror, can it not? One moment...!

[ And there is a short noise of shuffling as Sothis figures out how to turn on a video transmission. She herself is not in view, but you can see a throne room. Sothis moves the tome around so you get a good view of it. Notably, when she films downstairs, the room kind of... ends very soon. There is just darkness, just nothing there anymore. ]

There! This should serve as some explanation.

[ .... maybe. ]