The Unseason

The Seven Dials Emergency Flood Committee meets to discuss the problem of McGonagal's drains which, having been blocked by unseasonal leaf deposits, are draining into Zangwill’s Bazaar of Curiosities. The owners (Ferabdurus Lotus and Cortally Bakewell) are in conference with the local authorities who offer to slap a closure notice on McGonagal's Writers Cafe. Frab is wary, as he is fears that it will generate a wide-spread epidemic of hysterical writer's cramp. A compromise is reached when Rev. Lanzarotte's branch of the Toy Sprouts are called in to pump out the water, and unblock the drains. Unfortunately, Prigentia (for whom Frab is a Transcipient Rain God) now develops an emotional attachment to young Kimrock, the leader of the pack.