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Cailin plays with marbles in Toram's lands. When critters eat the marbles, the result is a larger marble. When those larger marbles are re-used, he ends up with grey spheres.
There is a throne on the pavilion. The King of Chaos is on the throne, and Flora is standing next to her.
Cailin bows to Silver Lyra as Head of House to King; she returns the converse. Cailin notices that someone is kneeling in front of Silver Lyra. That person stands and turns. Cailin realizes that it is the head of House Helgram. That guy looks startled, turns, and leaves.
Cailin gives Silver Lyra a rundown on his accumulated knowledge of the snow. Cailin also tells her of the marble to sphere transition. They discuss the possibility of causing snow in Toram's lands or Vanir's Wrath.
The King asks Cailin to ask the one who knows of Bibliomancy to approach her court. Silver Lyra says that it is their belief that Jean is compromised -- information that has only been given to Jean has been acquired by their enemies.
Cailin goes to House Moonlight and sees the archivist talking outside with someone he doesn't recognize. That stranger turns towards Cailin and starts incanting something hostile in his direction. Cailin turns into a yeti, and sees that the archivist has several holes in him and is stepping between the two of them. Cailin doesn't see Natasha at the moment.
The spell goes off. There is a slight sinking sensation in Cailin's intestines and then he is out of range. The caster has a somewhat surprised look on his face as his spell rebounds on him and splits his guts open. He is trying to pull himself together, much to the amusement of the archivist, when Natasha shows up behind him and pours a cup of something over his head. The yeti shrugs. All that is left of the attacker is a pair of smoking shoes.
Cailin brings the archivist to visit the King. The archivist asks if people normally attack folks around here. Someone came up to him, and said that he had to die due to a slight to his house... wasn't paying much information, sounded kinda like "bare".
Cailin contemplates finding a diplomat to go talk to House Barimen. He trumps his father, who asks for an excuse to get out of his poker game... he's losing to Mandor, who is in hiding, so he shouldn't have said that. Laetatio goes through the trump.
Laetatio and the others chat, and he goes off to have a talk with House Barimen. About ten minutes after Laetatio leaves, a large dog comes walking up, and Flora says, "You just missed him. He went that-away."
[logger wanders off]
The archivist is giving the King bibliomancy lessons. Cailin chats with a Helgramite who was present (and pleads anonymity) and agrees to inform Neville about Chaos business. When he turns back, archivist Cailin and the King are gone. Cailin sends out two messages to find the King using his own true name from a place in shadow.
The notes sent out also appear in Cailin's room in the crystal Faerie castle Amber.
Natasha made a suggestion -- prevent drawing magically from shadow. Cailin goes into shadow, tests in a single shadow, and it works. They return to the pavilion in Chaos. The archivist and the King return to the pavilion in Chaos. At about the same time, Tate returns from talking to Barimen. Tate reports:
Tate trumps Jenoir, Jenoir comes through. Tate, Jenoir, and Cailin go off into shadow and try to fix the snow.
Jenoir is the main caster, Tate is the main power source, and Cailin is secondary on both. When they are done, Titania is present. She leaves, taking Tate with her. There was apparently a brownout in Faerie, due to Tate drawing power from it. He is taken off by Titania in chains to the glass Amber and placed in the dungeon there.
Neville trades Titania Lucky, the last surviving soldier, for a way out of Faerie. Neville ends up in Arden, is confronted and questioned by one of Zack's rangers, and returns to breakfast in castle Amber.
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