I admit that it needs a little work. Sure it leaves a bunch of flakes of skin in my hair, but my new spell - The Instantanious Physical Cleansing works. I was able to avoid the dreaded soup the others warned me about and still ended up clean (after spending a couple of minutes shaking skin outta my hair).

I went down to breakfast and met Quinn, Corwin's daughter. Evidently she was sent by Corwin when he found out about Merlin's death. Connie and I filled her in about what we knew as we ate. Quinn told us Dworkin had suggested that she could use the Jewel of Judgement to bring Merlin back to life the way he was when he last walked the Pattern. She also told us a precious little about a thing called The Dreamline. Surely this was how Jade and Renaldo had affected our dreams.

After breakfast Connie presented us with a Trump sketch of Jade. We all discussed what we should do. Connie was against Trumping Jade because his father had suggested against it (which is just what he would do if he was in league with Jade). Jessica didn't seem to care one way or the other. She was preoccupied with the security of the castle. Quinn had no advice either way. Random said that we should use violence against Jade only as a last resort.

I decided that it was time to Trump Jade.