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Twenty-One: Fly Loamy Stormed

The interior militia stormed into Fly Loamy Slum the following evening and shot through the windows and kicked down the doors of its inhabitants. Their fire was returned. One spindly crone threw a petrol bomb and killed the four militiamen who had shot her grandson.

Twenty: Attentat

Nineteen: Broken Glass

Eighteen: In Which Problems Arise

It had taken the scant interior militia two weeks to disperse a small group of chemical millers and schoolchildren who had erected a tent settlement on the main thoroughfare through the citadel, demanding more food and holidays.

Seventeen: In Which a City Feels Restless in Dry Heat

During a summer of discontent, mordant pamphlets, theft and rainfall that was uncommonly low for the perpetually inclement citadel, restive groups formed and saw a chance. The conscript toll had been severe and rising for four years, and over a third of Sparta’s population was away losing wars. Most of the remaining population was engaged in wartoil, and was increasingly hungry and angry.

Sixteen: In Which the Plot Twists

The Ostrich lied. Or at least significantly embellished the aspects of the gossip about the iced cadaver that she and Edith found on their ramble that resonated with familiar tropes. ACLR had been bad at sports; but the Spartans abandoned her on the mountain for her part in an armed uprising.

Embroidery City

Wheeled City

Fifteen: In Which the Ostrich Documents the Child's Violent and Piteous End

So full of worth did the Spartans react to this lack of vim that they abandoned her on the mountains, before running off to avenge her death upon a neighbour and eat their children with no salt.

Fourteen: In Which Mother Ostrich Relates the Child's Early Circumstances

And the Spartans did fast for weeks and make vigorous war, and hurl the bloody children that fell down between their stony legs off outcrops, and all was thundery woe. But the little child could not throw javelin nor shotput nor discus nor 600-meter race could win, but was bad at sports.

Thirteen: In Which the Ostrich Tells of the Passing of a Child to a Frog in a Storm

THE WOEFUL TALE OF ALICE CICELY LORELEI ROSE, treasured twin of Edith.

O woe woe the wind and rain did BLOW and the sky's only light was with forks of death that did strike black and kill dead anyone that stood. And a STRANGER did pass a CHILD to the chilly grasp of the frog Baron von Woe.

And to SPARTA did he ride with nose too full of plots to sneeze, but itched, worsening the temper.

Twelve: In Which a Terrible Dolor is Uncovered Upon a Jagged Glacier

Ostrich and Edith were zigzagging on the surface of a glacier when they came across EDITH, dead in ice. Solemnly, hallowedly, the Ostrich with her motherly claw carved the story of Edith's long-lost long-dead twin sister into the ice.

Eleven: In Which a Grievous Walk is Had in the Afternoon

And so Edith followed Mother Ostrich up into the mauve mountains and their multifarious crags to find Herr Grief. It was indeed a farlong and winding road to Grief; and the crags did swallow Edith's pinafore and 12 hairpins as penance for their traversal.

As the sun was low and pinkening the wide highup sky and the clouds corralled magenta and green was seen on the horizon and excessive colour washed throughout the bowl of the sky; and the ground did pinken too and the turquoise lichens of the ground did glow in the late afternoon; as all this colour did feast the 4 eyes of Mother Ostrich and Edith: they found GRIEF.

Ten: In Which Edith and the Ostrich Disagree

Nine: In Which Edith Eats Lunch and Meets an Ostrich

The sunlight was cool and yellow in the early afternoon. It dappled across buttercups and clover, accommodated calmly by the turf of the glade. A ladybird settled on Edith's shoulder, its presence undemanding. Edith ate her sandwiches. The rocking-chair was patient. It harboured an Ostrich. The Ostrich was doing an old crossword. Edith sniffled.

Eight: In Which Edith Runs Through the Forest and then Stops Running

To Edith, galloping mournful through the chatter of the forest industries which outskirted the citadel, the cold silence of yonder mauve mountains seemed the only ambiance fitting to her grief. She tore through the woods, shredding her skirts, her tears ricocheting off the glassblowing clockwinding trees -- until she came to a soundless clearing.

Seven: In Which Pru is Slain

Edith had fled her lessons by 8:30 that morning, after her semiotics teacher, a dragon named Pru, was slain by a lusty adventurer to avenge his sexual insecurities.

Six: In Which the Misadventure to Follow is Summarized

E.G. at the age of 14, she found the skeleton of her hitherto unknown twin in a glacier which enveloped her after she was ABANDONED BY SPARTANS on the slopes of a mountain.

Five: In which an Education is Squandered

Her father, however, was a sweetheart of Caligula, and Edith and her lupine sisters were educated classically, and thoroughly grounded in the thought of the pre-Socratics, the Vienna Circle, Foucault's Pendulum, Semiotics of Chaffinch, Electronic Engineering, the Pre-Raphaelites, Bicarbonate of Soda, Forensics and Whispering, Post-Fordism and Pi R Squared, the Vernacular Arhictecture of Moths, Existential Counting, the Flying Arrow Paradox, Plebian Metaphysics, How to Make Mustard in Difficult Circumstances, e.g. in a Tree, Duck-Rabbit, Real Numbers.

In reality, Edith spent little time in lessons, borne by the inexorable winds of tragedy on relentless far-flung misadventures.