i look, once or twice a day, out of habit and without real hope, on the library new arrivals list for the glass word, but tonight at last i am rewarded! the last book of the flowing queen trilogy is "in process", according to the catalogue, which means, i suppose, that they are having their tricoloured labels and barcodes stuck on, and that in two days, it will be "in transit" (and i will quiver with anticipation) and in another two they will be shelved and ready for snatching to bosoms.

more of vermithrax, the old traitor, winged lion of living stone, and the flowing queen, essence of the lagoon and protectress of venice! more of girl apprentices to magic mirror makers, and razor-toothed mermaids swimming in canals, and lord light, the professor-prince of hell! (this had better be the last book, because i can't go through another year of catalogue-checking.