Swan Eaters by Georgia Dunn for April 06, 2020

Let’s hope he finished reading the rest of the chapter this time.

NO! This is the worst possible time to try again!

Takes after his Uncle Offal in his sense of timing.

He even looks like the Jared Kushner of the Hawker family. (“I read a book about this, so I’m an expert!”

This bodes ill!

Maybe he’ll get Winnie this time and expedite the reunion.

There’s never a wrong time to wipe out all existence. Just a less-opportune one. Fortune favors the bold.

Uh oh . . .

I’ve got a bad feeling about this…

Well, I woke up this morning, stumbled out of my cart.

I opened up the grimoire for the summoning art.

It only took me a minute for my finger to find

my daily dose of destiny under my sigh.

My eyes just about popped out-a my head.

It said, “The stars are stacked against you, boy. Get back in bed.”

I feel lucky,

I feel lucky, Yeah.

No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way.

Mm, I feel lucky today

(apologies to Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

Cannot read the title. Is this some kind of magic book, like “Self-immolation for Dummies”?

Great, as if things weren’t bad enough for the family. The Nazis know Offal’s somewhere in town, and Medusa Nazi wants to find him so as to be led back to the camp. The snow is deep so breaking camp isn’t too wise (even though they oughta do so so as to escape from Medusa Nazi and his SS cronies). And now Ivan is going to again try a summoning after nearly getting himself killed the first time. And he’s probably going to be bringing forth more of Mr. Wigglesworth’s kind, only their not going to be nice as Mr. Wigglesworth’s backstory revealed. Owlen should just use the schimbala to transform the wagons into flying wagons and get the family out of there then worry about Offal later

will two wrongs make a right? stay tuned!

The seeds of self destruction truly are planted into the genes of this family.