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Cailin talks with Iff at great length, then returns to his rooms and finds a book waiting for him. Cassandra goes looking for someone with no success, and then gives up and shadow-walks back.
Neville tries to track down a room at the other end of a ways that was splattered by the chaos storm. He thinks that anyone highly skilled at one of the major powers could find the room directly. Neville trumps Random and asks him for help contacting Celeste.
Celeste is receiving a trump call from an unknown caller. She builds a careful little foyer and takes the call there. It's Random. Amusement ensues. Random is thoroughly out of it.
Celeste trumps Ilk in Norton and relays incoherence. Norton walks over to Celeste and complains that she could have just walked into the other room.
Celeste takes another trump call from Random. Random grabs Neville and throws him over the contact to Celeste, along with two naked redheads. When the trump contact with Random drops, the naked ones melt away like smoke.
Neville shows Celeste a trump of a meeting room of some sort, and says that it was found somewhere in house Helgram. She doesn't notice any errors or trump traps, and says so. Neville pictures the entry-way of his house. Celeste touches him and builds a magical gate. Neville goes through.
Neville throws one of the disposa-Helgramites through the trump, and the last thing he hears is the sliver of a scream. "Good thing I didn't go through." Neville heads to some mages and asks them for a device that acts like a portable remote end of a scrying pool. They tell him to come back in a turning and a half.
Celeste receives another trump call from Random. He asks after his missing dancing girls, is incoherent some more, then hands her a jack of hearts, calling it his trump.
Cailin is woken in the morning by a polite knock at his door. The breakfast that arrives for a "guest of Cassandra's" includes multiple hangover remedies. Cailin eats, then wanders off and finds Iff. Iff is talking with Madir, who looks like a scattered-looking peasant woman. Iff introduces them. They try to hold a conversation, but Cailin doesn't follow their mode of communication, which consists of subtle adjustments in posture. Cailin's ignorance is discussed, then Madir drags him off to talk about pigs. Once outside the room, she releases him, apologizes, and offer to teach him more practical matters.
[Random trips; Tate trips and falls; Cailin just falls]
Madir takes Cailin and two "volunteers" from the army out to a hut in the woods. She knocks loudly at Death's door and warns him that they'll be practicing out back. She transforms a guard into a tweetie bird, and then helps Cailin transform into a bird. Cailin becomes a roc, eating a bunch of trees in the process. After a half of a hour or so, Cailin finishes a spell that lets him communicate with her.
He takes off with Madir hanging onto one leg, circles, and goes flying. He kills a hexapodal grazing beast, eats it, then goes looking for more food. Cailin goes Sha'um dodging. By the time he returns to the castle, there are cats hanging off every parapet in sight. They turn and head back towards a clearing, landing with about four minutes head start.
As soon as they touch down, a black cat appears out of nowhere and jumps on him. Cailin instantly turns into a yeti and runs.
Madir says, "He must have mastered invisibility." and starts poking at the air nearby. Hunter is disappointed at the loss of her bird. The next thing that Cailin knows, he realizes that he was unconscious.
[Get in touch with your inner yeti]
Just as Cassandra has returned to Pearl, Hunter drops a yeti at her feet and says it was a big bird and she should make it go back. Cassandra pokes the yeti. "Cailin, wake up." Cailin tries to stand up, and is pushed back to the ground by Hunter. Cassandra persuades Hunter to let Cailin go. Cailin runs off towards the castle, Hunter padding along behind. Cassandra follows at a more leisurely pace.
The cats herd Cailin around the castle. He keeps running. Cassandra has spotted him passing her twice, and grabs him on the third pass. He doesn't hear her.
Cassandra calls to kittens. Hunter is busy, but Gypsy shows up and drops an arm at her feet. Cassandra tries to convince Gypsy to acquire Cailin.
Cailin tries to run through an entry-way, hoping to overrun the cat. He miscalculates and ends up in a cat's jaw. It is determined that Cailin tastes like yak butter.
As soon as the big cat drops the yeti, Hunter jumps out of nowhere and knocks the yeti to the ground, unconscious. Gypsy drags Cailin back to his rooms.
Cailin wakes, with Iff standing over him.
Celeste has gone back to redecorating. After paint keeps getting up and moving on her, she changes the walls. The walls rearrange on her, so she mind-reams the walls to want to be how she wants them to be. The Jeans follow suit, and discover that six or seven of them working together can also mind-ream the walls.
Dworkin and the Jean closest to him are staring at the scales on Dworkin's fish.
The mattresses in Amber have not yet started slowing, but when they do, they'll turn into homoculi and start figuring out how to control the demons.
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