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Norton asks Jean to tell Norton that they're ready to put Vlad back together again.
Norton - "Time flies when you're not on
Grand Tour."
Jean - "Really? Soaring-flying or flapping-flying?"
Norton wanders over to Snarsht, who looks at him almost immediately. Norton asks Snarsht if he would be willing to help him put Vlad back together, make sure he does it right, and give him some pointers.
Snarsht picks up Norton by the scruff of his neck and walks out. Norton takes on the form of a kitten with silverish fur, scaled to Snarsht size. Norton keeps Norton appraised of his location. They're heading to a very familiar tower. Being carrying by Snarsht improves Norton's insanity.
The tower doesn't have a visible entranceway, but the wall moves aside for Snarsht. Norton and Faythe reach the wall with the pieces of Vlad. Norton works on a way of entering the tower. Nothing. "Lord Snarsht? I'm here with the puzzle." Still nothing.
Norton sends a bloodbeast in the form of a winged cat off through a window with a message. A while later, the wall beneath Norton's hand grows mushy. Norton, Faythe, and Jean enter. Snarsht is jumping about the inside of the tower, which is mostly empty except for the [?]
Norton and Norton starts reassembling the pieces outside himself. Ilk occasionally yells at Norton. Once a set of vocal cords are assembled, they are screaming. Ilk is not okay with this. At one point Snarsht bounds down, spears a piece on one claw, and places it somewhere else.
Once enough of the pieces are together for consciousness, Vlad looks up, says "Fiona, no!" and then lapses from consciousness to unconsciousness and the screaming stops.
Ferethyn's apprentice arrives on the roof and says that Ferethyn is arriving along with an Ilk.
Ferethyn shows up at the House; Ilk shows up a bit farther away. This Ilk joins the other two, swaps tendrils, and continues tossing Signs of the Logrus at Dworkin. Dworkin slows down a little bit more, but not a full Ilk's worth.
Jean notices strange animals and plants being created around Dworkin's path. Osric thinks that it looks like the influence of Logrus gone wild. He leaves the roof, acquires Ilk's attention, and tells Ilk about his theory. Ilk looks around, remembers the grass, and resolves to tell Suhuy. Various people look at the grass and worry in varying degrees.
Jean tries to bud into the strange creations, and succeeds about one in forty or fifty tries.
Osric puts a wall of his material in front of Dworkin. Dworkin smacks into it. Osric gets a headache, and Dworkin starts pushing Osric and his wall backwards. Osric tries multiple variations, none of which can separate Dworkin's connection to the ground. Osric tells the people on the roof of this matter.
Mecha-Jean is now visible on the horizon.
Celeste is still taking notes regarding redecorating Norton's house. Osric mentions that Celeste might be useful. Jean chips in that she could trump him. Zack is confused. A discussion ensues. Corwin says that the seven Pattern weapons that his not-son claimed to have at one point would come in handy.
Osric asks Dworkin if that fake Dworkin has trump. Dworkin pulls a piece of the physical structure of the roof free and starts sketching on the roof. It's a trump caricature of the other Dworkin.
The attacking Dworkin takes a step, touches the mecha-Jean, Jean has an unpleasant sensation, and then it is a single statue with a pigeon nesting on it. One of the saucers starts blasting pigeons.
Osric places a shield in a cylindrical form around the attacking Dworkin; Ilk braces it against the fabric of Chaos itself. Dworkin's movement slows; Ilk feels squished.
Jean complains to Pattern Suhuy that the bad Dworkin ruined mecha-Jean. Pattern Suhuy sketches in the air with a grease pencil, then the drawing flies over and impacts on the statue. The statue is now a Pattern-artifact, and can move once again. Jean fires at a pigeon. A line shoots out of the gun and impacts on the pigeon, which is turned into the sound effect of an explosion.
Jean starts describing everything, then after much prodding from others, starts describing the part relevant to the attacking Dworkin.
Cailin is trying to scoop up the ground, but fails. He can levitate some of the animals, but not the ground itself.
Norton has finished reconstituting all of the acquired Vlad bits. He tells Snarsht about the annoying Dworkin. "Let's go." Snarsht leaves. Norton shifts into a cross between a siamese cat and an oriental dragon, grabs Vlad in his talons, places Faythe on his back, and flies out. One of the Ilks takes Vlad from Norton and places him in Home. That Ilk is sought out by a seed bearing Clarissa's signature which bursts around him and says, "Thanks."
Cailin is trying to levitate Dworkin when Snarsht comes bounding out of nowhere and lands next to House Cara. Two silver furry dragon-things come flapping in behind him; one ridden by a beautiful redhead, the other ridden by a Jean. The dragon with Faythe remains circling.
Cailin tries to levitate Dworkin again, and fails. Norton tries to vibrate the air around Dworkin, and fails - it's too real.
Ilk passes a note to Suhuy describing the things appearing around Dworkin and receives a reply, "Don't piss off Shiryu." Ilk stops tossing Logrus-power at Dworkin. Cailin hasn't lifted Dworkin, but he has sunk into the roof of House Cara. His feet are imbedded in the rock. Cailin works for a while, then manages to extract himself.
Norton dies and hails Dworkin. Dworkin appears in mid-air next to Norton. Norton dies, and dies again. Osric tries to put a bubble of his power around Dworkin, and succeeds.
Gentleman Suhuy has stood up. Jean points to Dworkin's new location. Gentleman Suhuy says, "That is mine. That's bad." He walks over to Osric, says that he will need to borrow his brain for a moment, and reaches into Osric's brain. Osric has an icky feeling as if Pattern is being channeled through his brain. The feeling is soon over, and the sphere around Dworkin is much stronger.
Gentleman Suhuy, regarding the disposition of his younger brother. "Anything they want. I don't want him."
Dworkin looks over. "Hey Snarsht!" Snarsht looks up at Dworkin. "Cat toy!" Snarsht shrugs at Norton. Dworkin grumps, does something, and then a bell appears on the botton of the ball. The Chaosians realize that they've never seen a bell in Chaos before. Snarsht plays with the bell. Ilk passes Suhuy a flip-book.
Celeste is getting a trump call. It's Faythe. Faythe passes Celeste the image of Dworkin, in a ball, with a bell hanging from the ball, being batted across Chaos by Snarsht.
Jean tells Ferethyn's apprentice about Snarsht and the cat ball.
Ilk chats with Vlad. Extensively.
Tools - Celeste, Brand, and some other tools that he can't remember.
Ilk and Vlad return to House Cara. Ferethyn says that those missing pieces are a bitch...
Norton is fixing Norton while trying to keep Faythe from healing Norton. "Celeste, get your daughter away from my corpse!" Celeste tells her daughter to stop being stupid. The life mage, the death mage, and the death mage are working on fixing the death mage.
Ferethyn has left for the council chambers. Princess Chandra leaves, taking Cassandra, Cailin, and Cassandra's four bodyguards with her. Corwin leaves as well.
Suhuy is wandering around the council chambers, showing people the flipbook.
Vlad and Norton chat.
At some point a brief wind opens the door and there is a black cat sitting in Snarsht's chair. It's Atalanta. Cassandra tells her to get over with her; Atalanta says that the big cat told her to sit there and take notes. They discuss the meaning of this. Cassandra asks for Norton's advice.
Norton asks Celeste if Faythe can go back to help redecorate Norton's house. Celeste is good with that idea. They discuss marriages, honeymoons, and mechanical birds. Norton gives Faythe a bloodbeast in the form of a little sleeping dragonfly. Faythe names it after her mother. They discuss making a wolf out of their mingled blood. Celeste twitches.
Norton asks Snarsht about taking notes in the council chambers. One Norton takes on the form of a giant siamese cat and enters the council chambers. The other Norton goes looking for Snarsht.
Jean chats with the gentleman Suhuy. Snarsht is discussed, Norton is mentioned as working for Snarsht. Suhuy does something and Norton's head is floating over House Cara, although it still feels attached. Norton can't see Suhuy. Jean is an intermediary. The concept of making a pet out of Snarsht is mentioned; Norton is amazed. Norton investigates the void - it's not even a soul; just a memory of a soul.
Gentleman Suhuy makes a construct in the mecha-Jean so they can communicate.
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