How It All Goes Down
True Story
- Karou mopes around her apartment drinking tea and dining on Tylenol for a few days.
- Eventually, Zuzana comes by to check up on her.
- She thinks Kazimir has beat her, but Karou decides to tell her the whole story: an angel attacked her with a sword.
- Zuzana takes this as a lie along the lines of "I fell down the stairs and through a window," and she goes to leave.
- Before she's out the door, though, something thumps against the window. "It was Kishmish, and he was on fire" (20.31).
- He dies in Karou's hands.
- The note tied to his foot crumbles to ash, but he's carrying the wishbone Brimstone wore around his neck.
- Karou dashes through the streets to Brimstone's door. It's on fire, too. And not in that good "the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire" way.
- "The way to Elsewhere had been severed, and [Karou] was cast adrift" (20.44).
- Poor Karou.