1. What is meant by "What follows is imagined, but it happened just so"?

2. What is "Devil's Night"? How does it apply to the setting in "Seven for a Secret"?

3. Jack is described as a "spirit individual as much as the flesh." What is meant by this? How does "Seven for a Secret" reveal this aspect of Jack?

4. Why would a unicorn stay in a ruined inner city with the homeless?

5. Why does the fiddler Staley come to the ruined inner city? What does she get out of her experience there?

6. What makes the blue fiddle a "spirit fiddle"? What is Staley's view on the matter? Is she right?

7. Malicorne says, "Live long enough, William, and you'll meet every kind of a person, hear every kind of a story, not once, but a hundred times." What does she mean by this? Does this statement have...