Marianne, the Matchbox, And the Malachite Mouse

Authors: Sheri S. Tepper

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“‘Marianne is gone, heaven knows what is happening to her, and here we sit, dillying.’ ‘I am not dillying,’ said Makr Avehl in as patient a voice as he could manage. ‘Listen, Ellat, there is a villain out there. A most horribly noxious but subtle villain. His name, for lack of a better and because it has become ubiquitous, is Cattermune. I think it is no coincidence that this chain of game stores springs up and at the same time people begin to disappear. It is no coincidence that we find this ga...me in a place where Marianne and Dagma and the faithful Aghrehond have just vanished from. You’ve been to a Cattermune store. You brought back a game, the same game, and Therat says it, too, is dead. The dice that came with it are those strange dice. The game pieces are all alliterative little animals. Ruby rats and chalcedony chickens. Bloodstone bats and garnet geese. Little animals which disappear when their players do. So, and so, Ellat, I, too, will disappear …’ ‘Makr Avehl,’ she wailed.MoreLess Read More Read Less