Spelling butterflies.

There's an Oxford Dictionary of Quotations at work that I'm thinking about taking. The only reason I'm hesitating is because it'll displace one of my Lego sets. Says something about me, doesn't it?

Also, I think it's only fair that if the radio stations are going to play an obnoxious amount of Christmas songs around Christmas, it's only fair that they play an obnoxious amount of Hannuka songs around Hannuka. But that's just me, you know?


Okay. Back to the Stupid.

It's time for the final breaking of Sister. After one night of the fake nightmare nightmares she's not waking up and this is a good thing because it finally means she's ready to lose all her memories and become EVIL.

There's a very.. odd phrase, not phrase, thought here, by Failee.

Despite all their knowledge and power, my other Sisters are still as children compared to me, Failee thought serenely, still looking out the window. Only a complete study of the Vagaries can bring one to the place of enlightenment that I have found, and therefore to the understanding that I now alone possess. They must follow me, as they alway have. They have no choice. They never will.

Failee is going to be giving up her position as leader of the Coven to Sister. They don't say why this is, just that she is. So, Sister will be more powerful that Failee and the others will be following her. Which makes the last part of her thought invalid, because they won't be following her. They'll be following Sister. And how come they can't become as learned in the craft as she is? Is she hiding stuff or what? I dunno. It's just very... odd to me.

For her final nightmare they decide to threaten her unborn child by having the people she cares about (Wigg, mom, dad, husband and twin) try to get at it. How? By violating her. Sticking their hand up her vagina and groping. As opposed to... cutting open her belly. She then slaughters all of them and walks out of the room remembering nothing.

Annnnnd back to Triscuit. They go to see Faegan following Shannon. There Earwig notices that there's a tree growing that's a magic tree with all sorts of different plants grafted onto it, plants that the Evil Coven tried to destroy because they were used for magic.

Finally we meet Faegan. He plays the violin. And he has no legs. Instead he's in a wheelchair. There's also a dark blue cat with a silver chain in the room. We then get Triscuit's view of Faegen himself.

Tristan had never believed he would see a pair of eyes more intense - or more beautiful - than Wigg's. But he had been wrong. Faegan's eyes were even more amazing.

Large and heavily hooded, they stared back at Tristan with absolute candor and calmness. A calmness born of power. The gray irises were huge, flecked with strange green motes that made the eyes look rather like continuously turning kaleidoscopes. Over the eyes rested long, arched brows; the gray hair was rather raggedly parted down the middle and fell over his shoulders. A large, hawklike nose hung over a long, thin lipped mouth. The strong jaw commanded respect.

He spends six sentences describing the eyes. Six. Including the word "beautiful". These are the sort of things that you only use on the DLI.

Gimpy learns that Triscuit is the Chosen One and asks Trisicut to kneel before him and look into his eyes. Actually he says, "Bend over and look into my eyes." My mind went in ALL the wrong places with the first half the sentence. "Tristan did as he was told, and almost immediately became lost in the swirling green motes. It was like being caught in a bottomless whirlpool of color."

Eight.

Earwig and Gimpy discuss Triscuit like he's not there and a lot of stuff we already know. And they discuss the cat, Nicodemus, who is also under these marvelous time enchantments that everyone seems to be under. Triscuit gets pissy and Emo demanding answers. He's ignored.

Instead they go to a garden where we learn that Gimpy can talk to the magical colorful butterflies. It's kinda like an Ouija board. You ask the butterfly a question and it spells out the answer for you on a large marble letter circle. I'm not really sure how he taught the butterflies how to spell though. While we see this Earwig and Gimpy snip at each other like Exs. I mean school boys. >.>

I'm not really sure what the point of the magical colorful spelling butterflies are, but I'm sure they'll come in handy later. Except maybe to make Triscuit look smart as he asks, "But what do the fliers have to do with the garden?" and Gimpy answers, "Leave it to the Chosen One to bring us finally to the heart of the question." He uses the butterflies for pollination.

Yes, All you need to do to be a Chosen One is ask Questions! And obvious ones at that!

Triscuit then asks for answers again and again is ignored.

Instead they go have dinner, because you know, getting to the bottom of what's happened isn't as important as dinner. Which is the beginning of a rather long series of events, so I'm going to cut off here for now.