Chapters 31-32 Summary

The next morning, Thursday spots two surveillance cars outside her apartment. The televised new contains a censored story about the theft of the Cardenio script. Cordelia appears and tells her there is an order for her arrest but they hope she will turn herself in. She agrees to entertain Cordelia's friends. As she talks to them, she checks the entroposcope and finds the entropy is falling.

Thursday notices Aornis sitting outside her apartment. Just them, a jar falls off the shelf breaking the specimen bag, splattering the pink slime. One of the visitors, James, identifies the substance as Dream Topping in strawberry flavor. Cordelia agrees to change clothes with Thursday so she can avoid the watchers waiting outside. In exchange, Thursday had to agree to three months of publicity work. They are less than half an hour until the end of...