S2.3: Bulb attack!!!
“So there I was doing the whole Brienne of Tarth thing, completely in the zone and oblivious to anything else. Like a Zen master / mistress. Those turnips didn’t stand a chance! “So I wasn’t to know that nasty bulb-spiders were sneaking up behind me. Anyway, Hipparchus hadn’t warned us. He bangs on all the time about me not playing with his maps, little bulb dolls (weird, that, for a grown-up!) and stupid little rakes and yet he doesn’t predict a murderous attack on my life! So it wasn’t my fault.” pTravis feels obliged to defend Lottie’s tutor. “He said that no one - none of his ‘remote faculty’ of bulb-spider trackers anywhere in the country - had predicted that the sudden warm rainy spell had started the bulb migration early last year and so the people who usually spot them first - and thus warn us of their path - hadn’t been on careful look-out so early in the season. It really was most unfortunate.” “Hmph! Anyway. The next thing I knew was that I had two huge ...
