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Jean in shadow is watching something amazing. He's watching the Unicorn fence with nothing. He cheers for the Unicorn. It is fencing using its own horn, and is obviously exerting against something.
Jean tells Ilk in the tree and the Dancers' Guild. Suhuy has Jean fish through a Logrus etch-a-sketch. It survives, so Suhuy pulls to the sketch.
The Unicorn is doing frantic battle against a mass or swarm of anti-dragons.
The Serpent's Apprentice dives into the Sea of Chance to keep the anti-dragons from following him. He emerges in Chaos, and finds one... but without the Serpent in the skies, and Snarsht is stationary, and the plants aren't moving, and the Shifters Guild isn't changing colors...
Dives back into the sea, passes the promentory w/ Shiryu. Tell Shiryu. Opens ways to Chaos. Send note about model to Ferethyn, who curses and complains about timing. Greet Serpent, tell about Unicorn. Serpent tells Ilk to have Princess Chandra investigate.
Ilk pours through Jean to Cobalt. Erica subtly greets him. Ilk heads down the stairs to where Princess Chandra is watching Dworkin, Dworkin, and Ecto-Suhuy.
There're playing with fishing poles, and there are a number of dead twisted things lying there. The Dworkins are just tossing things aside, and Princess Chandra is killing them. She tells Ilk that she's corralled some of them off to the side and fed them, but most are dead.
Princess Chandra warns Ilk to stay put and watch himself, and steps into the Sea of Chance.
A few minutes later, Princess Chandra shows up with a nasty-looking male in Sith regimentals and vaguely Chandra-oid form, who is apparently not a shapeshifter.
Princess Chandra leaves again. Ilk tries to explain the job to the Sith. After a while, something comes in, and the Sith adds it to the corral with only minor injuries.
Don Serioli and Zorro discuss their next actions. Their next task is to succor the populace, not to attack the rest of Cyndia's armies. Zorro is a lunatic. Beldin talks to Cailin about relocating his family. They argue at length.
Ecto-Ilk, Jean, and Cailin try to explain shadow, shadow movement, laws of reality, and so on to Samantha.
"Armageddon is what happens when the Saran Wrap goes through the pudding of the black hole" -- Jean
Finally, Zorro and Don Serioli ride off into the sunset, even though
Jean sees the big dragon leave and Princess Chandra arrive. She looks at Jean and recommends that he vacate the shadow until this was resolved. Jean asks Princess Chandra to toss him into the next shadow over. She isn't sure if Jean could survive the way that she normally throws things betwen shadows.
The Unicorn might be winning this fight, but the enemy is breeding faster than the Unicorn is killing it, so Jean would eventually be mired in dead things.
Princess Chanda has Jean slow down, grabs the saucer, Logrus-pulls the two of them one shadow over, then releases the saucer.
She looks around the desolate shadow and says that this place reminds her of something that she hasn't done in a while. She steps out of Jean's sight, then steps back in near Ygg.
She goes over to the tree and apparently talks to it. After a while, she bows to the tree. Jean is amazed. He has the Dancers' Guild reverse-engineer the bow from Guild Head, and they say that is would be to at least the Serpent.
She turns and goes back to Cobalt.
In the interim, the Sith has corralled one more and killed two. Princess Chandra takes the Sith back to Chaos and returns. Ilk and Princess Chandra talk.
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