While Katherine dreams about green and brown frogs, Nerida dreams about Arthur.
She is with him, in his tent.
It is night time.
He is writing a poem, which must be for her..
She is stringing gold beads, making a bracelet, which must be for him
One of Katherine's green and brown frogs darts up her leg.
Get off me! shouts Katherine, thrashing about in her bed.
Nerida wakes. Lovely dream over.
In the next room, Gaius too is dreaming.
He is in a dark forest, searching for frogs.
He treads softly, in the faint torchlight.
Something brushes across his forehead.
Is it a spider? No, spiders don't swing in that way.
Backwards and forwards, and smelling of chocolate.
He wakes with a start.
Terence is sitting by the window, whispering.
Whispering to someone.
Who can it be?
Could it be Greedy?
Yes, it's Greedy. How did she get here?
Gaius listens.
Where were you? whispers Terence.
In Katherine's room, whispers Greedy.
How did you get here? whispers Terence.
A cleaner found me, whispers Greedy. She fixed me.
That's good, whispers Terence.
Not that good, whispers Greedy. She used me. Then she brought me in here.
How did she fix you?, whispers Terence.
She put another pink rubber glove inside me, whispers Greedy.
Stop! A cleaner would never do that.
Cover a good glove with a ruined one.
Again Gaius wakes with a start.
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