Having learned that the mortals of the mansion are not sufficiently occupied, the gentleman with the thistle-down hair has decided to provide a bit of harmless entertainment. Therefore, anyone who spends more than five minutes in one place will find himself or herself a child ( Read more... )

Enter a woman, no longer a maiden and not yet (or no longer) old, with the deportment of a matron and sad green eyes far older than that. She is disoriented, lost, and for a moment she stares at the back of her hands, for they are no longer the gnarled and wrinkled hands of an old woman, but young and strong again; as is the rest of her ( Read more... )