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The Lady Tere
accuses Thom of being "one of those boys who thinks that the only way to learn is to take apart." Bingo. She
asks what the poor dismembered camera does, and he explains. Kind of. They are both puzzled by its artist-less magic-less state. The Lady Tere
asks if he sings. He is musically ignorant. She plays the hammer dulcimer and they
talk Poe. They both prefer poetry to stories. Thom admits that he
does some magic. The music reminds him of his sister, so they
talk family. The Lady Tere
explains about the heavenly spheres and
lets him play too. But then she
brings out his sphere followed by his sister's and it makes him cry and run away.
Paul
yells at the Lady Tere for being noisy. She teases him and
calls him fussy. Paul suggests "socially maladjusted" and she calls him
wallflowerish. Paul is enraged and they argue. Also kind of. Paul
spits at her. They don't get along some more. Paul
serves no one and is in a swell position but is not happy. And that's pretty much that.
Thom
calls Paul rude and tries to find out what the camera casing is made of. Paul is very unhelpful but
does provide Thom with an icepick. He smashes what's left of the camera with it and they talk about broken and dying things. Thom
almost murders his foot with the icepick but Paul doesn't want it back. He encourages Thom to
use it on whatever/whoever but that's not Thom's style. A
big black spider crawls out of Paul's mouth and Thom sets it on fire. Paul thinks Thom's purple magic is
fruity. Thom doesn't speak that language and wants know what it means. Paul says maybe
Thom ain't [a poof] and not to worry about it but no such luck. Paul says it means a sexual pervert and Thom is really pissed and
turns him into a fish. Paul seems to be trying to pull a Blubber. Please know what I meant by that. Thom fixes him and Paul
runs away, threatening that Thom'll pay as he does so.
Meg thinks Thom's icepick-waving is
pretty funny and has a conversation with the Lady Tere in French. They talk about the Opera, and Meg's mom, and whether the Lady Tere can
get Meg a job. She can, but in Vienna. Meg won't leave her mom to go to Vienna and asks if the Lady Tere knows what's happened to Christine. The Lady Tere
thinks Vienna would be good for her and asks her if she means Christine Daae. And then [presumably] Meg-mun's computer has a stroke and that's the end of that.
And Jill
already summarized what happened with Jane, so I'm done. Yay Jill!
Edited because I reread
musical_muse's userinfo and had a guilt attack about having used the wrong name in the summary.