Lucette writes to Sophie the next with an invitation, as well as her daily logs of the weather in York since the last time she wrote.

Lucette sends the only letters consistently worth reading! 

Yes of course, she can visit that weekend. She'd come on her own sooner than that but flying long distances alone isn't allowed for young ladies because people don't think women can read maps or something like that.

The new sensation will just have to be a mystery until then.

Actually it turns out it's the result of a poison Lucette dosed Annie with.

That doesn't make any sense because it's a sensation Lucette feels and has no effect on Annie at all.

No the poison causes Annie's skin to... to... Lucette can't quite remember anymore, it was there a moment ago...

It was a demon-delusion. Pet pet pet.

The last ones didn't fade... possible this is a result of the demon being weaker after the first haunting? It did only have six arms this time.

"Maybe if it comes often enough it'll fade away like a bad dream every time?"

"That seems likely? ...and I suppose is better than the alternative."

"Yeah. I really hate the - but if it's like a bad dream, I wasn't previously having a crisis every time you went to sleep about the possibility you'd have a nightmare."

Lucette isn't going to say aloud that it's way worse than a bad dream.

It's mostly cope anyway but it's nice of her not to completely shatter it!

And Annie can't see Lucette's face, so that won't give it away either.

She is indeed not very good at facial expressions.

Sophie arrives the next day.

"Hi what is the weather like where you're from? Lucette told me it's not very nearby...I'm Sophie."

"It's got a cool maritime climate and it rains and snows a lot. I'm Annie."

"Does it hail and how was the weather on your trip here?"

"It occasionally hails. I haven't been able to directly appreciate almost anything about the weather as of late since I am blind and deaf and rather insensate to the temperature. I don't think I got rained on, I would have noticed that."

"Oh I'm sorry you didn't get rained on. How can you hear what I'm saying?"

"I have a separate power that lets me understand and speak all languages and it cuts through the part where I'm blind and deaf. So I can hear voices speaking but only that, I can't hear it if you cough or something."

"Can you feel thunder if it's loud enough to shake things a bit?"

"I might be able to, but I don't think it's happened since I went deaf etcetera."

"That sounds terrible."

"It was a pretty irresponsible handling of the artifacts in question for sure."