#dreaming

In the dreaming, on a trod, the safety of it, relative, some childlings gather, one of them, Gail Liddel, looks over her cousins, her sister, and speaks "I have news, and we may have an ally"

"She is sluagh, so I think one of our sluagh would be even better recieved by her I..." Gail looks at the Slaugh among them. The old English sensilibites in the blood has translated well to Sluagh and boggans. She notices one is missing "Where is Mauderia?"

"She.. held her fate off as long as she could" Another Liddel announces, not just to Gail, but the others "I was there, at the last.. Holding her hand. One moment she was telling me all she could, all she had learned, where to find the notes she kept... and then, gone. She..grew cold, and what was left smoothed her dress and ...started to talk about influencers and Kardashians..."

No one asks if they tried glamour on her to bring Mauderia back. The curse.. happens. And putting off the Togail does little to prevent it.

"Better death by Jabberwock or Bandersnatch" Another shivers

They hang their heads for a moment, and some huddle or hug each other. The Liddel blood is strong, and cursed, and yet it binds them, kiths aside.

Finally, Gail raises her head again "Her name is Miss Zara Schwartz, she's a llibrarian, and she speaks of a place for Witches... I think, maybe she knows more than most."

"or can lead us there..."

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