This series is just so seriously weird. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I will say that there are obviously a lot of people out there with WAY more active imaginations than my own. Today's lesson...don't walk away from it for very long or you forget enough to get lost. I had to refresh my memory on a couple of characters before things moved smoothly for me again. A lot of big events happen in this volume that will once again majorly change the trajectory of the story. I'm mildly confused, somewhat disgusted on occasion, and definitely weirded out, but I'm back into the loop now and ready for more.