6.7: Shenanigans

Ever since the exciting events of The Order of the Sponge, pTravis, Masongill and Lottie have been very possessive of their scarf and sponge insignias somehow belonging to, and thus symbolising, the Order of the Sponge. It was while wearing these and performing a ritual on the 31st July, the Feast Day of St Joseph of Arimathea (at least on the Greek reckoning), that they were carried off in some sort of ‘wild hunt’ which seems to have destroyed an encampment of hostile bulb spiders. 

Although they try not to wear them too often near peace-loving Alcock, they are quite proud of the scarves and hang them up carefully and reverently and would never lend them to anyone else, even in cold weather. So it is something of a surprise after breakfast, later that week, to look up and see only two hanging by the Potting Shed door, an empty hook...

and Fabian racing off, harum-scarum across the fields with the missing scarf flowing back as though in a breeze.