The volcano code is backwards.
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sadly that didn't work but now I'm thinking I'm not meant to use the volcano ones because this hint doesn't sound like a volcano but I don't know where I'm meant to go. "Where grandeur rots and empty eyes watch from hollow frames. Only the pale queen’s light reveals the path. Among thorns that guard a fallen crown, the white sentinel stands where no gardener tends"