"Here, you can have my coat."

Zoe gratefully swaddles herself in Frank's coat and blows on her hands a lot.

Anemone starts making some coffee.

"Thank you."

"What happened?" Oswald asks and only afterward registers is probably tactless considering her state.

"I -- I'm not sure. I was... I don't remember. I was here... I think I had been going to read one of the books? And then I was in the dark, in the cold. It was a clear night and there were so many stars. I was in some park? In Pennsylvania? Thank god they were doing construction there or I probably would have never found my way back. The workers there saw me and took me to the train station. And then I came here."

He frowns. "Was it night when you remember being here last?"

Zoe pauses to think. "I don't think so? I think I came in the morning, after breakfast... Maybe the guards know?"
 
 
 

The guards report that Zoe was here in the morning and then left in a hurry that afternoon.

He looks at the others who actually did the reading. "Did you have some -- schedule -- or divide the books up between you in some way--"

"We each picked four of them but not in a particularly principled way."

Now that Zoe is warming up again she is VERY sleepy. She curls up in a chair.

"Me and Mordred and Zoe each picked a set of books and took notes on them. I think Zoe had done all of hers except for Adrift in a Storm-Tossed Sky? Was that the one? You can take a nap in a bit, sorry - "

"I don't remember any books, sorry. On the train here I thought maybe I had been going to start reading then, since I was supposed to be done with them by today..."

Worrying! "Uh. Do the rest of you know what was in the books you think she'd already read."

"Yeah, I have notes." 

"I think I must have read something... I'm trying to remember but all I'm getting is weird snippets. 'dance across the skim-skein haze'? 'dancing motes'? 'chaos waltz'? There's a lot of... dancing imagery, I don't really get it."

"I guess we should make a note that sometimes almost all memory of the books just vanishes from one's mind."

She jots them down but honestly does not really like the sound of that. "I think... maybe nobody should read that book again right now. The last one on your list, I mean."

Zoe nods sleepily. She looks around the room, yawning. "...is Carrie going to be showing up? It's weird for her to be even later than me."

"..........Carrie didn't make it out of Trammel's mansion."

"She what? But we... we made it out. Where did she go?"

"She was caught on the way in. We were going to try to get her out, but Trammel showed up, and we - retreated."

"She and I were going to go in together. How could she have gotten caught, if I'm here?"

"I don't think she made it. I think you went first? And you were hiding in the shadows, and someone saw her following you but overlooked you - "