“Guys,”
Fiona stresses, “We really need to get out of here. I've wasted
enough time, I've got to find Raven and get the hell out of here.”
“That
may be something of a problem,” Strauss replies.
Fiona
pauses, with a reluctant sigh. “Why?” she asks.
“We
believe,” he responds cautiously, “That we may have stumbled
into a story archetype, in this case rags to riches, Cinderella.”
“That's
a problem how?”
“Story
archetypes play out, different versions of the same basic story, over
and over, endlessly. It's partly how any semblance of order is
maintained in the Weave. The same seven stories, one version after
another, each in their own self-contained little bubble.”
“So
what do we do?”
“We
are unsure,” Strauss admits, “But somehow we have to get you out
of this narrative, or you will go to the ball, and you will, we're
afraid, inevitably live happily ever after.”
