PART TWO: STITCH-FACE - Chapter 10: An Audience with Crott, A Deal Is Struck, The Rat King; Chapter 11: The Strange Death of Alista White, A Carriage at Bedford Acres; Chapter 12: The Fiend in the Sewers, A Trick to Trap the Wych-Kin Summary

In Chapter 10, Lord Crott's banquet hall is filled with the beggars in his gang, all eating and chatting merrily. Many have deformities - some because poor people often cripple their children so that passersby will compassionately give them more money. Crott makes room at his table for Thaniel, Cathaline, and Alaizabel, then introduces his friends. Devil-boy Jack is a valued advisor. Armand, rather dim, is...