5. RUMOR COLLECTS BITS OF HISTORY AND DREAM

It was rumored, then, that Melusine was making a new headdress for herself and that was why she holed up in a turret every Saturday where no one, not even her husband, could make demands on her. This made him curious. What were these new-fangled horns? And why wouldn't she let him see her in them? Meanwhile, Rumor collected bits of history and dream and bolts and brass machinery. Four o'clock said the Waterford: eight hours till transformation, and golden light began to stretch across the floor.

She summons Hadaly
She summons Francine
She summons Raya
She summons Rhetorica
She summons Alberta
Pandora arrives unsummoned


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