Oh! They must find dresses! And accessories! Lord Akeldama is the height of fashion. Petunia is delighted by the invitation to attend Lord Akeldama’s dinner party. Soap is exasperated at Sophronia’s intelligencer’s way of thinking but agrees that they could always plan to meet at Regents Square an hour before dawn. Sophronia asks Soap if they can arrange a safe place to meet in case they are compromised. He has an invitation to a dinner party and theatrical production with Lord Akeldama. Soap has another purpose for seeking Sophronia out other than smelling her and laying a kiss on her hand, though. While Sophronia declares there can be nothing between them, he is supernatural and she is not, Soap promises he will change her mind. Nuzzling her ear, Soap tells her there can be no more friendship between them, that boiler is dry. Suddenly, Soap grabs Sophronia indecently close and whips her away to the back room of the shop. Soap thought her preference lay with Lord Mersey but Sophronia knows Felix cannot be turned away from his Picklemen beliefs. Truthfully, because Soap always deserves the truth, Sophronia tells him she wasn’t sure she would be welcomed. Soap wants to know why Sophronia hasn’t been to visit him since slipping out of a London townhouse wouldn't be a challenge for her. Sophronia realizes that Professor Braithwrope’s condition after the tether snap is getting worse. He is fascinated with her neck and his fangs start to show, but luckily Professor Lefoux steps in the way. As that was Sophronia’s last bolt, she charges Professor Braithwope with her bladed fan, but he catches her before she can strike. Sophronia shoots her metal bolt and the Professor reaches for a handkerchief with one hand and the bolt with the other. Sophronia suggests a variation on the Fan and Sprinkle technique used on werewolves and produces a cream puff from a sleeve, lobbing it at Professor Braithwope who cries in distress at the puff dirtying his trouser leg. After sunset, the eccentric vampire joins the ladies on deck and no one can hit him prancing about. This lesson, however, is slightly different from other weapons as they shall have a “live” target: Professor Braithwope.
Since Captain Niall is off with the werewolves, Professor Lefoux has taken over his weapons training and this time, they’re learning the crossbow! Sophronia is a natural and moves on to a heavier, more deadly crossbow straightaway. Now, everyone who knows there is a problem with the mechanicals is stuck waiting for something to happen. Why is she here? From their train heist adventure, Sophronia knows that Monique, now a drone of the Westminster Vampire Hive, has been keeping tabs on the Picklemen who have been replacing the crystalline valves in mechanicals in order to control them. While Sophronia reminds him they need to throw each other off from their pesky engagement, Dimity uses her fan to communicate that there is an enemy among them: Monique. Pillover finds Sophronia, in his words, lurking like a reluctant hedgehog and knows something is up but is not sure exactly what.
Proving her intelligence is outdated, Preshea eyes up Felix, who looks older and more tired and isn’t wearing his customary Piston kohl about his eyes either. Emulating Agatha, Sophronia hides at the back of the room behind a fern (!!!), Agatha sparkles and garners a lot of attention with her cinched waist and abundant assets, and Dimity obviously hides a dark side with her snipes to her doting admirers. En masse, Geraldine’s Girls descend on Bunson and Lacroix’s Boys’ Polytechnic.
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