After the INITIAL SHOCK of the letter, Katherine decides to take ACTION... Meanwhile, the OTHER SIDE of Knottwood Forest... Huh?  What has got HORACE so worked up? Oh...

Meanwhile, Katherine arrives at the GATES to Knottwood Forest... only to find them (for the first time EVER) firmly CLOSED!

Meanwhile, UNAWARE of her terrible dilemma, the girls are taking a BREATHER... Katherine TELLS them about the letter... and the polls! But Isobel P. Hanbro is having NONE of that sort of defeatist thinking! (But what can Isobel DO? And are the results of the NEW KNOTTWOOD POLL all IN yet?)

VERMINTRUDE courtesy of INTENTS, Knottwood's Official Blacksmith. Horace's FUR TUNIC by KATHERINE.
Copyright 2008 M. F. Miller. All rights reserved.