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Sephia was able to make it into Cadence's dream. I0t was a vast library / auditorium full of books with Cadence studying in it and looking at pictures of her mother(s). When Sephie confronted her daughter, the women asked, "Is this some Corraline bullshit?" and Sephie sheepishly admitted that it was, in fact, some Corraline bullshit. As they had a heart to heart (with Sephie's familiar, the black cat - manifest as a great beast in the dream - looming over them) Other Mother appeared and viciously slashed Cadence's throat. They defeated her, but not before Cadence was seriously injured and the dream dissolved.

==Session 31==

===April 25th===

The changelings woke up ready to face another day. Nikolai and Sephie discussed the dreams they went into.

Ernie contacted Johnny for advice on how to help winter, and he explained that following and giving orders is largely a summer thing that is part of the reason he left the summer court. He also spoke with Chelsea at the flophouse to determine how well things are going and she took a note of Ernie's number.

Hestia prepped meals for Jack Strong. She called him darling when she gave him lunch and even gave Jack a house key. He was overjoyed and delighted by the whole affair.

Nikolai called Billy for advice on crafting pledges, but got a hold on Dahlia. Dahlia directed him to a reclusive Autumn courtier named Maag Brunt for his needs - the changeling being double infamous for assisting the Autumn king (of all people!) in crafting pledges, and alleged that Brunt had formerly crafted pledges with "Arcadian entities."

Alana went to work and was stocking at Horrocks, but was confronted at work by ICE agents that were actively inquiring regarding her contradictory immigration statuses. The Man with the Badge captured her as she fled, and strongarmed her into contacting her motley. The Man explained that he was after Ernie, but that he did not intend to take him to Arcadia - just to see "someone who really wants to see him." He further explained that, if the motley gave him the badge back, he would arrange for a meeting with this person outside of Arcadia - allowing them to come to his window. Ernie admitted that he wanted to see his sister, but not so badly as to allow that - and, further, he admitted that he was concerned she might be happy in Arcadia and, if that was so, he wouldn't want to take it from her. After deliberation, the motley attacked the Man and, hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, they defeated him.

Upon doing so, they returned to their home. Nikolai showed the badge to Sullivan and, after doing some research, became convinced that the Badge was now something that could be magic, but no longer had a spark of magic in it.

==Session 32==

The badge started to burn white hot, and Nikolai yeeted (yote) it into the back yard. The badge started to cool down. After it cooled down, he brought it back in and put it back on his nightstand where it had burned a nice divot for itself.

Ernie's recurring dreams came up, he saw moonbeams extending down to his balcony out his French doors. Ernie chose to walk down the moonbeams to the moonlit beach below. He sees a second set of footprints on the beach and a detailed drawing on the beach of Ernie with a young woman. Words drawn on the sand, "Ernie, I miss you - I want to see you" He then awoke.

===April 26===

They brought Hestia to the lotto office in Grand Rapids where they cashed the ticket. This gave her a dot of resources and the events at the lottery office were completely uneventful.

Jack contacted them to let them know that Smith would be returning on a train. He came over for dinner and they arrived at the train station. Smith was curt and evasive about anything regarding Mary Kingman. They went to McDonald's for ice cream, had awkward conversation about how Smith is not answering questions with Mary Kingman. Eventually, the went to his office, and speculated regarding whether Smith lived there.

You are cordially invited to a MASQUERADE BALL to be held on the 29th of this, the month of APRIL. We spend so much time showing each other our true faces, let this be an opportunity to show our MASKS. The BALL will begin promptly at 5 PM at the Center for the Performing Arts, but feel free to arrive FASHIONABLY LATE. Your sovereign, Billy Goat PS: Present this at the door to give access to your motley and any hangers-on. Arrive together or not at all.

Nikolai put it into his outfit for safe keeping.

===April 27th===

The groups split into guys and girls groups to go to the mall to shop for clothes for the party. Since it's prom season, there are a lot of dresses, and April is enthusiastic about trying them all on. She gravitates toward dresses that are very extra in light tones and autumn shades. They all planned to get their hair and nails done on Thursday.

Ernie and April made their own masks. April made a butterfly mask. Ernie made GLORIOUS masks.

The motley went to the casino to collect glamour. April managed to sneak in and ended up looking at jewelry at Swarovski.

The dealer called them out for coming to the Casino on a Tuesday, saying that "mosts \[changelings\] come to the casino on a weekend." They annoyed him to recover Glamour. Sephie comforted people who had lost. April failed to recover glamour and looked at jewelry at Swarovski. Alana bumped into people to annoy them.

Nikolai received a black business card with gray numbering - "if you need anything from a friend"

===April 28th===

Ernie completed his work on the masks for the ball, having made glorious masks for the entire rest of the motley.

Ernie's picture changed to reflect the picture of the beach, and while it unnerved him, he was able to shake it off. Nikolai hunted for glamour by being a creeper at a bar.

April goes out for some sort of thing and returns giddy and delighted. No explaination was forthcoming, and Alana was concerned by default.

Sephie's garden is almost ready to sprout, but needs some final oomph to make it go.

===April 29th===

The motley prepared for the masquerade and arrived at the Civic Center. The string quartet playing along with a DJ.

A man named Jonah approached the motley and told them that a mutual friend named Wolfgang would like a moment of their time. Wolfgang explained that he is the most powerful Autumn courtier in the Freehold, that the Pumpkin King is treacherous and would bring about the fall of the Freehold and was evil. He gave them a crochet hook that he said was "proof" of this.

Jack Strong proposed to Hestia to a string quartet rendition of "True Colors," and a horrified April admitted that she thought he had a "real" girlfriend. Jack presented a 4K diamonds, and Hestia accepted his proposal. A tearful overjoyed Jack kissed her!

Some Poeple Wait a Lifetime...

==Session 33==

Hestia dancing with her fiancee. April asks Alana to dance.

Ernie danced with Jaqueline Yamamoto.

Nikolai dances with Holly LeClerc who asked her questions about her ambitions.

Persephone is approached by a woman in a business pants suit appraoches the individual on the Spring Throne and pointing at the painting.

Dahlia was captured.

Billy danced with Hestia and asked if she had "figured it out" yet, and when she said she had not, he promised she would.

"Did we put an actual power hungry tyrant on the throne?" "Yeah, but it was a protest vote."

The Motley returns home and goes to bed.

===Night of Fucked Up Dreams===

Ernie dreamt of his father and his Keeper and ended up abandoning his dream motley to escape from the Collector. He drove towards a beach at his sister's request, but woke up. He talked to Nikolai about how to get into dreams, then found himself driving with him to Pasedena. Wake up again. Walk down to the beach. His sister was at the beach, and they went to a malt shop,

Wish You Were Here

Nikolai dreamt of his Babushka - the Baba Yaga - who replaced his missing eyes.

Hestia dreamt about her husband sitting on his own grave. "You're moving on" "I felt it was time." "I just... I was hoping that 'til death do us part would be forgotten and we would never be apart." He embranced her and told her he would always love her. In her hand there was a golden ring - her husband's wedding band. Hestia cried.

Alana is in high school - she's never been here before. She's in a dream she's never dreamed before. This isn't her dream. She sees April kissing a girl backstage

Sephie had a dream where Other Mother came to visit her in her dream and looked over the house and looked at their van.

===April 30th===

Jack came over and explained that he was worried about Billy, but that as long as no one makes him angry, he's sure it'll be fine. He was delighted by the lunch and mentioned that he needed to set dates and choose colors for the wedding.

Ernie is planning to contact Eric Rowe to set up a support network. Hestia is going to call a house meeting. Sephie is going to inform you that the van needs new license plates, the house needs a security system. Nikolai wants to visit Maag Brunt on the North Side. Alana is going to talk to Ernie about the thing with the gubments.

3 beats

Fetch with benefits Kind of infetchuous Self love

==Session 34 "Ivey My Queen"==

Hestia called a house meeting to discuss Jack Strong. They discussed if he would move in. They decided they should probably create an addition of a master suite to house Hestia and Jack. They tried to call Billy to see who owns the house. They worked to improve their Hollow.

They then decided that it was important to get the drop on Other Mother, since she seems to be looking into thing with them for an attack.

They went to the house at about noon. Alana is hiding in the tree there (4/0). Nikolai, Hestia and Sephie went into the house. Ernie is hiding in a bush (5/1). Gnomes by Wil Huygen's and Good Faeries/Bad Faeries by Terri Windling and Brian Froud and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Sephie destoyed the painting of Baron Munchausen's Castle in the sitting room. They cut down the painting and they left ashes in the sink.

Eevie goes to the hospital and specifically looks for someone from the crime section to visit there as well as the birth announcements to see if she can find a baby to visit. Mostly because she wanted to have two different wards to investigate. Since she planned to get a coffee at the cafe. A woman there suggested that coffee and a ham sandwich - the woman looks like Sephie.

Eevie went to Fourth Coast to waste time as an older gentleman in khakis and a sweater vest who noticed her. She realized he was supernatural and changeling adjacent, and waved to him. They went for a walk together. He explained that he had lost some very strange things. He said his name was Jim. After walking to the house, she became afraid of him and he left of his own accord.

Hestia wrote a note to Cadence and gave it to the cat, "We're going to try to take care of other mother. I hope you feel better." The Motley returns to Battle Creek at this point, then returned home. They fortified the house with cameras and booby traps, but did a generally poor job of fortifying the residence. Nikolai laid down to rest, but realized that he forgot to lock up on his way out.

Billy admitted that he forgot he answered his own phone now. He also admitted that he didn't remember who legally owned the house. He told her building anything on it should

Nikolai planned to visit Maag Brunt. Maag was eating hominy with fake maple syrup. He told Maag his story and Maag explained that the Freehold is and has always been a mess. Maag offered to help him understand pledges.

April tried to put a positive spin on Hestia's meeting where she invited all the girls to be her bridesmaids. They discussed bachelorette party plans.

Ernie is working to create his support network, moving money between accounts and talking to construction companies.

Persephone tried to sabotage Other Mother's life, but Other Mother convinced the hospital administration that she was the victim of a bizarre identity theft.

After a convoluted series of events, Billy declared that "Pluto is a planet - it looks like a planet, it acts like a planet - that makes it a planet! And any who acts like a member of this Freehold, shall be a member of this Freehold!" Initially, it was concerned that the True Fae would do this, but Billy pointed out that to be a member of the Freehold, they would have to be IN the Freehold, and that wouldn't count. Then the Court of Strange Days was remembered and Billy conceded that they must be members now, and that "This will be an interesting story." He left.

April lamented, "Billy is fucking insane" after he left.

==Session 35==

Hestia got quotes for her restaurant and was able to wheel and deal to bring things under price. Hestia asked Ernie to assist her in expediting the process, and he forwent the option to bring the hobs into it (which would have been considerable savings), and instead worked with changelings within the community (exceptional success).

Ernie got Jack, Jude, Donald, Celia, Orlando, Elissa and Blair to help; Jack was there to supervise, and everyone else was a newer member of the freehold looking for work. Alana came to keep people safe and April will absolutely not leave Ernie and Alana's side.

Nikolai contacted the Blackjack dealer from Firekeeper's and was told that he could find what he needs to learn about himself. They met for donuts and coffee, and April came along, delighted to get donuts and bring them back for the motley. He mentioned that he had met with both the Pumpkin King and Alexander Smith (which he believed to be an assumed name) and that there was a great neon turtle that spit coins that was the spirit of the casino that somehow factored into Smith's "master plan" (which April was interested in, but uncertain what she would trade for such a thing). He offered to tell Nikolai the name of all his Keepers in return for "his health," which took the form of eating 18 (!) donuts. Nikolai became hyperglycemic as a result of his decision.

He gave Nikolai the names, in order, Prince Kindhearted, Koschei the Lich, the Collector, the Baba Yaga (who was kind to him) and finally the Erlking.

The motley went to sleep. Nikolai recalled his time with Prince Kindhearted, learning that he and the Prince went to the Capital, where, knowing he had no Kingdom, Prince Nikolai presented himself to the King to marry his Beautiful Daughter. The Daughter agreed, but the King told him he needed to defeat the Great Army that had amassed against him and even now descended on the Capital. Servant Kindhearted called upon the Knight Invisible to help him slay the army, and together they did. Then Prince Nikolai presented the note, which sadly for him, actually declared that he was a liar who had tried to rob the Prince of his title. This was a

Saturday May 1st

Hestia worked on the place. April, Nikolai, Ernie and Alana went on a run and April carried on about holidays. Sephie called Billy who, in a light coke rage, told her she should kill her fucking fetch so fucking dead - just burn her goddam house to the ground. They discussed transportation, and Sephie admitted that she thought that her van was known to the fetch and would be a risk to use. Billy suggested that she rent a car.

Sephie called the hospital and masqueraded as her daughter Cadence to get her fetch on the phone. After some back and forth, she baited her fetch into meeting her at the church for a "May Day Celebration" sometime between 7:00 and 9:00 PM. Billy was delighted and said that Smith will definitely want to be there because he LOVES revenge.

They prepped for the slaughter. Billy was, surprisingly, dressed in a conservative clerical vestment.

Ernie modified Billy's vestments into an attractive dress for Sephie. Sephie called into work for the night, saying there was a family issue she needed to resolve. Sephie fed the blood to the saplings, which responded splendidly. The motley prepared for bed and began.

Nikolai remembers being a tree in faerie, rooted in place, unable to move or see. Barely able to hear or speak.

In the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door. When Ernie answered the door, he found his sister Regina there, weeping and faded, her visage like a black and white photograph.

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 Sephia was able to make it into Cadence's dream. I0t was a vast library / auditorium full of books with Cadence studying in it and looking at pictures of her mother(s). When Sephie confronted her daughter, the women asked, "Is this some Corraline bullshit?" and Sephie sheepishly admitted that it was, in fact, some Corraline bullshit. As they had a heart to heart (with Sephie's familiar, the black cat - manifest as a great beast in the dream - looming over them) Other Mother appeared and viciously slashed Cadence's throat. They defeated her, but not before Cadence was seriously injured and the dream dissolved.
+==Session 31==
+===April 25th===
+The changelings woke up ready to face another day. Nikolai and Sephie discussed the dreams they went into.
+Ernie contacted Johnny for advice on how to help winter, and he explained that following and giving orders is largely a summer thing that is part of the reason he left the summer court. He also spoke with Chelsea at the flophouse to determine how well things are going and she took a note of Ernie's number.
+Hestia prepped meals for Jack Strong. She called him darling when she gave him lunch and even gave Jack a house key. He was overjoyed and delighted by the whole affair.
+Nikolai called Billy for advice on crafting pledges, but got a hold on Dahlia. Dahlia directed him to a reclusive Autumn courtier named Maag Brunt for his needs - the changeling being double infamous for assisting the Autumn king (of all people!) in crafting pledges, and alleged that Brunt had formerly crafted pledges with "Arcadian entities."
+Alana went to work and was stocking at Horrocks, but was confronted at work by ICE agents that were actively inquiring regarding her contradictory immigration statuses. The Man with the Badge captured her as she fled, and strongarmed her into contacting her motley. The Man explained that he was after Ernie, but that he did not intend to take him to Arcadia - just to see "someone who really wants to see him." He further explained that, if the motley gave him the badge back, he would arrange for a meeting with this person outside of Arcadia - allowing them to come to his window. Ernie admitted that he wanted to see his sister, but not so badly as to allow that - and, further, he admitted that he was concerned she might be happy in Arcadia and, if that was so, he wouldn't want to take it from her. After deliberation, the motley attacked the Man and, hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, they defeated him.
+Upon doing so, they returned to their home. Nikolai showed the badge to Sullivan and, after doing some research, became convinced that the Badge was now something that could be magic, but no longer had a spark of magic in it.
+==Session 32==
+The badge started to burn white hot, and Nikolai yeeted (yote) it into the back yard. The badge started to cool down. After it cooled down, he brought it back in and put it back on his nightstand where it had burned a nice divot for itself.
+Ernie's recurring dreams came up, he saw moonbeams extending down to his balcony out his French doors. Ernie chose to walk down the moonbeams to the moonlit beach below. He sees a second set of footprints on the beach and a detailed drawing on the beach of Ernie with a young woman. Words drawn on the sand, "Ernie, I miss you - I want to see you" He then awoke.
+===April 26===
+They brought Hestia to the lotto office in Grand Rapids where they cashed the ticket. This gave her a dot of resources and the events at the lottery office were completely uneventful.
+Jack contacted them to let them know that Smith would be returning on a train. He came over for dinner and they arrived at the train station. Smith was curt and evasive about anything regarding Mary Kingman. They went to McDonald's for ice cream, had awkward conversation about how Smith is not answering questions with Mary Kingman. Eventually, the went to his office, and speculated regarding whether Smith lived there.
+You are cordially invited to a MASQUERADE BALL to be held on the 29th of this, the month of APRIL. We spend so much time showing each other our true faces, let this be an opportunity to show our MASKS. The BALL will begin promptly at 5 PM at the Center for the Performing Arts, but feel free to arrive FASHIONABLY LATE. Your sovereign, Billy Goat PS: Present this at the door to give access to your motley and any hangers-on. Arrive together or not at all.
+Nikolai put it into his outfit for safe keeping.
+===April 27th===
+The groups split into guys and girls groups to go to the mall to shop for clothes for the party. Since it's prom season, there are a lot of dresses, and April is enthusiastic about trying them all on. She gravitates toward dresses that are very extra in light tones and autumn shades. They all planned to get their hair and nails done on Thursday.
+Ernie and April made their own masks. April made a butterfly mask. Ernie made GLORIOUS masks.
+The motley went to the casino to collect glamour. April managed to sneak in and ended up looking at jewelry at Swarovski.
+The dealer called them out for coming to the Casino on a Tuesday, saying that "mosts \[changelings\] come to the casino on a weekend." They annoyed him to recover Glamour. Sephie comforted people who had lost. April failed to recover glamour and looked at jewelry at Swarovski. Alana bumped into people to annoy them.
+Nikolai received a black business card with gray numbering - "if you need anything from a friend"
+===April 28th===
+Ernie completed his work on the masks for the ball, having made glorious masks for the entire rest of the motley.
+Ernie's picture changed to reflect the picture of the beach, and while it unnerved him, he was able to shake it off. Nikolai hunted for glamour by being a creeper at a bar.
+April goes out for some sort of thing and returns giddy and delighted. No explaination was forthcoming, and Alana was concerned by default.
+Sephie's garden is almost ready to sprout, but needs some final oomph to make it go.
+===April 29th===
+The motley prepared for the masquerade and arrived at the Civic Center. The string quartet playing along with a DJ.
+A man named Jonah approached the motley and told them that a mutual friend named Wolfgang would like a moment of their time. Wolfgang explained that he is the most powerful Autumn courtier in the Freehold, that the Pumpkin King is treacherous and would bring about the fall of the Freehold and was evil. He gave them a crochet hook that he said was "proof" of this.
+Jack Strong proposed to Hestia to a string quartet rendition of "True Colors," and a horrified April admitted that she thought he had a "real" girlfriend. Jack presented a 4K diamonds, and Hestia accepted his proposal. A tearful overjoyed Jack kissed her!
+Some Poeple Wait a Lifetime...
+==Session 33==
+Hestia dancing with her fiancee. April asks Alana to dance.
+Ernie danced with Jaqueline Yamamoto.
+Nikolai dances with Holly LeClerc who asked her questions about her ambitions.
+Persephone is approached by a woman in a business pants suit appraoches the individual on the Spring Throne and pointing at the painting.
+Dahlia was captured.
+Billy danced with Hestia and asked if she had "figured it out" yet, and when she said she had not, he promised she would.
+"Did we put an actual power hungry tyrant on the throne?" "Yeah, but it was a protest vote."
+The Motley returns home and goes to bed.
+===Night of Fucked Up Dreams===
+Ernie dreamt of his father and his Keeper and ended up abandoning his dream motley to escape from the Collector. He drove towards a beach at his sister's request, but woke up. He talked to Nikolai about how to get into dreams, then found himself driving with him to Pasedena. Wake up again. Walk down to the beach. His sister was at the beach, and they went to a malt shop,
+Wish You Were Here
+Nikolai dreamt of his Babushka - the Baba Yaga - who replaced his missing eyes.
+Hestia dreamt about her husband sitting on his own grave. "You're moving on" "I felt it was time." "I just... I was hoping that 'til death do us part would be forgotten and we would never be apart." He embranced her and told her he would always love her. In her hand there was a golden ring - her husband's wedding band. Hestia cried.
+Alana is in high school - she's never been here before. She's in a dream she's never dreamed before. This isn't her dream. She sees April kissing a girl backstage
+Sephie had a dream where Other Mother came to visit her in her dream and looked over the house and looked at their van.
+===April 30th===
+Jack came over and explained that he was worried about Billy, but that as long as no one makes him angry, he's sure it'll be fine. He was delighted by the lunch and mentioned that he needed to set dates and choose colors for the wedding.
+Ernie is planning to contact Eric Rowe to set up a support network. Hestia is going to call a house meeting. Sephie is going to inform you that the van needs new license plates, the house needs a security system. Nikolai wants to visit Maag Brunt on the North Side. Alana is going to talk to Ernie about the thing with the gubments.
+beats
+Fetch with benefits Kind of infetchuous Self love
+==Session 34 "Ivey My Queen"==
+Hestia called a house meeting to discuss Jack Strong. They discussed if he would move in. They decided they should probably create an addition of a master suite to house Hestia and Jack. They tried to call Billy to see who owns the house. They worked to improve their Hollow.
+They then decided that it was important to get the drop on Other Mother, since she seems to be looking into thing with them for an attack.
+They went to the house at about noon. Alana is hiding in the tree there (4/0). Nikolai, Hestia and Sephie went into the house. Ernie is hiding in a bush (5/1). Gnomes by Wil Huygen's and Good Faeries/Bad Faeries by Terri Windling and Brian Froud and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Sephie destoyed the painting of Baron Munchausen's Castle in the sitting room. They cut down the painting and they left ashes in the sink.
+Eevie goes to the hospital and specifically looks for someone from the crime section to visit there as well as the birth announcements to see if she can find a baby to visit. Mostly because she wanted to have two different wards to investigate. Since she planned to get a coffee at the cafe. A woman there suggested that coffee and a ham sandwich - the woman looks like Sephie.
+Eevie went to Fourth Coast to waste time as an older gentleman in khakis and a sweater vest who noticed her. She realized he was supernatural and changeling adjacent, and waved to him. They went for a walk together. He explained that he had lost some very strange things. He said his name was Jim. After walking to the house, she became afraid of him and he left of his own accord.
+Hestia wrote a note to Cadence and gave it to the cat, "We're going to try to take care of other mother. I hope you feel better." The Motley returns to Battle Creek at this point, then returned home. They fortified the house with cameras and booby traps, but did a generally poor job of fortifying the residence. Nikolai laid down to rest, but realized that he forgot to lock up on his way out.
+Billy admitted that he forgot he answered his own phone now. He also admitted that he didn't remember who legally owned the house. He told her building anything on it should
+Nikolai planned to visit Maag Brunt. Maag was eating hominy with fake maple syrup. He told Maag his story and Maag explained that the Freehold is and has always been a mess. Maag offered to help him understand pledges.
+April tried to put a positive spin on Hestia's meeting where she invited all the girls to be her bridesmaids. They discussed bachelorette party plans.
+Ernie is working to create his support network, moving money between accounts and talking to construction companies.
+Persephone tried to sabotage Other Mother's life, but Other Mother convinced the hospital administration that she was the victim of a bizarre identity theft.
+After a convoluted series of events, Billy declared that "Pluto is a planet - it looks like a planet, it acts like a planet - that makes it a planet! And any who acts like a member of this Freehold, shall be a member of this Freehold!" Initially, it was concerned that the True Fae would do this, but Billy pointed out that to be a member of the Freehold, they would have to be IN the Freehold, and that wouldn't count. Then the Court of Strange Days was remembered and Billy conceded that they must be members now, and that "This will be an interesting story." He left.
+April lamented, "Billy is fucking insane" after he left.
+==Session 35==
+Hestia got quotes for her restaurant and was able to wheel and deal to bring things under price. Hestia asked Ernie to assist her in expediting the process, and he forwent the option to bring the hobs into it (which would have been considerable savings), and instead worked with changelings within the community (exceptional success).
+Ernie got Jack, Jude, Donald, Celia, Orlando, Elissa and Blair to help; Jack was there to supervise, and everyone else was a newer member of the freehold looking for work. Alana came to keep people safe and April will absolutely not leave Ernie and Alana's side.
+Nikolai contacted the Blackjack dealer from Firekeeper's and was told that he could find what he needs to learn about himself. They met for donuts and coffee, and April came along, delighted to get donuts and bring them back for the motley. He mentioned that he had met with both the Pumpkin King and Alexander Smith (which he believed to be an assumed name) and that there was a great neon turtle that spit coins that was the spirit of the casino that somehow factored into Smith's "master plan" (which April was interested in, but uncertain what she would trade for such a thing). He offered to tell Nikolai the name of all his Keepers in return for "his health," which took the form of eating 18 (!) donuts. Nikolai became hyperglycemic as a result of his decision.
+He gave Nikolai the names, in order, Prince Kindhearted, Koschei the Lich, the Collector, the Baba Yaga (who was kind to him) and finally the Erlking.
+The motley went to sleep. Nikolai recalled his time with Prince Kindhearted, learning that he and the Prince went to the Capital, where, knowing he had no Kingdom, Prince Nikolai presented himself to the King to marry his Beautiful Daughter. The Daughter agreed, but the King told him he needed to defeat the Great Army that had amassed against him and even now descended on the Capital. Servant Kindhearted called upon the Knight Invisible to help him slay the army, and together they did. Then Prince Nikolai presented the note, which sadly for him, actually declared that he was a liar who had tried to rob the Prince of his title. This was a
+Saturday May 1st
+Hestia worked on the place. April, Nikolai, Ernie and Alana went on a run and April carried on about holidays. Sephie called Billy who, in a light coke rage, told her she should kill her fucking fetch so fucking dead - just burn her goddam house to the ground. They discussed transportation, and Sephie admitted that she thought that her van was known to the fetch and would be a risk to use. Billy suggested that she rent a car.
+Sephie called the hospital and masqueraded as her daughter Cadence to get her fetch on the phone. After some back and forth, she baited her fetch into meeting her at the church for a "May Day Celebration" sometime between 7:00 and 9:00 PM. Billy was delighted and said that Smith will definitely want to be there because he LOVES revenge.
+They prepped for the slaughter. Billy was, surprisingly, dressed in a conservative clerical vestment.
+Ernie modified Billy's vestments into an attractive dress for Sephie. Sephie called into work for the night, saying there was a family issue she needed to resolve. Sephie fed the blood to the saplings, which responded splendidly. The motley prepared for bed and began.
+Nikolai remembers being a tree in faerie, rooted in place, unable to move or see. Barely able to hear or speak.
+In the middle of the night, there was a knock on the door. When Ernie answered the door, he found his sister Regina there, weeping and faded, her visage like a black and white photograph.