8.1: A dying fall
Season 8: The Wyrd of Unbelief Lottie is sitting in the den in the woods, looking out at the rain: a fine light rain but enough to soak anyone out in it for long. As everyone knows, axolotls are allergic to water. It is thus not a day for football. Travis arrives after a long Saturday morning committee meeting at the Potting Shed. As someone widely seen as ‘up and coming’ in Potting Shed administrative circles, he feels a kind of moral duty to give up half of his free time on Saturdays to such dull duties. But it isn’t clear to him what, if anything, he has achieved today. Perhaps that is why he says: “Lottie! It’s a Saturday! You’re reading! You don’t have to read on a Saturday. No more lessons until Monday!” “I know, but I don’t know what else to do on a day like this. And this - even just a poem! - fits my mood.” “What is it?” “Oh it’s a Farren. An early one. Before, they say, he ‘found his voice’. She picks up the book again and perhaps more fluently than one migh...
