The Blog of Roon

Shirley and Margaret are getting through Siberia as best they can.

Shirley has come down with a miserable chest cold, and in the process of treating it he horrified his guides by unintentionally ticking off the hearth spirit. Thoroughly chastened, he apologized and listened carefully to the prohibitions they laid on him.

I’d say that the spirits sent the cold if he hadn’t had it before he ticked them off. Of course, he might have done something beforehand… but that way lies madness, and Shirley is too wretched right now to care. Though his wife is of course taking very good care of him; it pays to marry a doctor.

He and Margaret are currently unraveling the mystery of the child accompanying them; they initially thought it a case of abuse, but matters are more complicated than that. At least Shirley’s native caution kept them from hasty (and incorrect, it now seems) accusations.

Debate is apparently raging among the guides as to whether Shirley, Margaret, and Esperanza have souls. Apparently Russians do not. They might; they are at least not Russian. Jury is still out, however.

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