Hmmm. I didn't notice that specifically -- but I was busy tearing my hair out at "Wizard Suliman" (I believe my exact words were "You're supposed to be a man, and dead"), which distracted me rather. In fact I found the entire second half to be kind of incomprehensible, probably because I kept subconsciously trying to shove the story back into the shape I knew, and of course it wouldn't go. All my attention was on the Witch of the Waste, instead of wherever it was supposed to be.