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Cailin rants at Rainbow about recovering Darkstar in order to use trump to steal the Unicorn to smite anti-dragons.
Jean and Kieron eat meal-worms in Ferethyn's conference room.
Jean buds into House Hendrake. There are a bunch of old challenges left for him at the front desk, and a number of prisoners trapped inside of him.
Samantha is impressed by Faythe, Norton, and Natasha. Natasha is impressed that Samantha actually had two kids by the same father.
Princess Chandra approaches the group of Realms Lords, bows, and tells them that the Serpent is willing to move. Shiryu owes the Serpent a large favor and a good backscratch. She tells Suhuy that the Serpent wants his Logrus back soon.
King Osric heads over to the group by the edge of New Cataan. He demands to know the plan, and is annoyed at the lack of said plan.
Rainbow goes in first, followed by Snarsht, followed by most of Cailin's household, and then Cailin. Just as Cailin steps across, the Chaos-quake happens. The towing begins as Cailin is off-balance, straddling between worlds.
Duncan throws a horde of small sharp Pattern-things on strings around the group and has made a safe space -- a small bronze room. Beldin and Cailin join hands and concentrate on summoning the Rebman Pattern.
Suddenly, the Jean in Rebma notices the lights go out. He turns on his helmet-light. The blucite is still there, but there is nothing beneath it. The room is now empty except for blucite and a hat. Jean reports to Neville that Llewella should be much more tractable now.
Snarsht is just fine, but Rainbow is displeased about being in the same shadow as a Pattern. Cailin and Beldin are in the center of the Pattern. Beldin doesn't quite pass out. Cailin has dropped from 80% to 65% capacity.
Cailin and Beldin chat. They notice that the Pattern, viewed edge-on, is in fact a straight line. Cailin tells Snarsht and Rainbow that now they have the Pattern, but they don't know how to move it. Snarsht looks at Rainbow, and Rainbow tosses something to Snarsht.
Cailin conjures a hobbit on the underside of the Pattern. It explodes, but the Pattern fails to move.
Duncan, Shannon, Hubert, and Caralethian each grab the strings that are attached to the arrowheads below the Pattern and pull, removing the bottom of the box. They rearrange things such that the floor forms part of the wall, and the Pattern forms the floor of the new box. A sparking noise starts up as a flow of anti-dragons charge Cailin and company, hit the bottom of the Pattern, and detonate.
Beldin yells at Cailin when he considers walking the Pattern in his head. "You might distract it. Don't!"
Ilk fails to tow the Logrus back to Chaos; he decides to wait until people return from New Cataan. He sets off all of the Logrus alarms in Chaos, just because.
Neville is not exactly happy at the loss of Rebma's Pattern, but he's not upset, either. Zack has gone off to prepare himself for his father's funeral. A host of people get a ride back to our reality from Vanir's Wrath.
Ferro shows up at the Spiral, holding Oberon's head by the hair. He walks up to Dworkin, shows him the head, and tells his father that he's been scolding Oberon, but Oberon won't mend his ways. "Here - you try!" Ferro throws the head at his Dworkin. Dworkin catches it.
"Alas, poor Oberon, I knew him, Ferro."
Jean fishes Dworkin to the badgerverse to make him sane again.
Jean has one of Zack's rangers in Arden go off to check out Rebma. He discovers that the pressure change never happens -- he can't breath there. The ranger has Jean tow him out over the waters, where he can see lots of bodies floating in the water, some being eaten by sharks. Jean saucers converge on the area and dump drowned corpses and sharks into one of the rangers' training centers. The trainees are trying to revive the corpses, and mostly failing miserably.
Beldin and Cailin contemplate ways of feeding the Pattern power -- it's running out. They play games with trump and bibliomancy. Beldin tokens out of the center of the Pattern; Cailin is trumped out.
Insane Norton has gone over to the shifter trap, eaten the shifter trap, and spit out a Darkstar. Ilk has arranged for there to be no Jeans nearby. Ilk stashes Darkstar out in shadow and recommends that he stay away from Chaos and Cailin.
Cailin notices that Tate is holding his Trump defenses trump that scatters everything coming towards him all across reality. Cailin argues with his father, then tattles on him to Rainbow. Rainbow destroys the trump card, then butterflies out. Butterflies start searching Tate. Tate jumps up and down hollering, "Hey - I'm not a shapeshifter!" Two of the butterflies that aren't searching are rolling around on the floor laughing; Snarsht is tolerantly amused.
Cailin looks through the walls. The Pattern, which has been reconfigured to no longer be in the box, is now sparking on both sides. He can't see any sign of Zorro of his accoutrements, there are several large bites out of the planet, and there are some cattle remaining on the planet. The Logrus source is gone.
Cailin notices that the sparking on the Pattern seems to be decreasing... he's not sure if it is due to the Pattern or the anti-dragons weakening. He decides to throw bibliomantic tokens outside. The archivist starts making bibliomantic tokens. Cailin tries to expand his magical sight to people. Cailin teaches Beldin how to do that, and Beldin raises magical sight. Everyone can now see outside.
Someone says that the cattle are traps -- the anti-dragons are riding the cattle. Grey lumps at the intersection between the neck and the torso.
Rainbow asks the archivist why he doesn't just draw Patterns on those tokens. The archivist replies that he works with words, not pictures. He does know a good artist, but Rainbow apparently doesn't work well with him.
Cailin and Beldin work to spend another 6% of Cailin's battery in an attempt to summon Ferro. Ferro looks around and greets Snarsht and Rainbow. Rainbow recommends that Ferro draw a Pattern on the outside of the box. Ferro pushes his way outside the box and starts drawing a Pattern on the outside of the box. They notice that his lines are spreading out as Ferro walks. Ferro finishes the Pattern at the same place where he started, and jumps off the box as the lines blur into a continuous whole, completely covering the outside of the box. Ferro heads off into the Sea of Chance towards Amber.
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