Last chapter: Creamy appeared. She looks like a LeGizzârd now. Tookie passed out because . . . well, that's what women are like, right? They're obsessed with fashion and appearance, swoon over boys, and faint whenever something scary happens.
Now back to our "positive and empowering novel for young women."
Tookie hears someone yelling at her to get up, and she's suddenly back in her room in Peppertown, with Myrracle "giggle-snoring" in her bed.
Making it all just a dream would have been the ultimate "screw you" to the reader, but it's fairly obvious this isn't the case.
Tookie hears a voice repeatedly telling her to get up.
Her mother is standing over her. Apparently, Ci~L and the Unicas did nothing to pull her away or get her to safety after she fainted. Tookie backs away and tells the others that "the monster" is her mother.
Another hand appears on the wall, and Myrracle comes over the wall. She is described as "it", so we can assume that she also looks like a LeGizzârd.
"Your sister is part LeGizzârd?" Piper asked, looking at Tookie with the same fearful expression she had once reserved for Ci~L.
So, does crossing the Diabolical Divide turn people into LeGizzârds, or has Creamy always been a LeGizzârd? Because if she has always been one, Tookie is also part LeGizzârd.
Unfortunately, it's incredibly unclear if Myrracle and Creamy just look like LeGizzârds now or actually are LeGizzârds. I'm going to assume they just look like LeGizzârds because they're dirty and the Unicas are too stupid to tell the difference between "dirty" and LeGizzârd.
Tookie realizes that she replaced Myrracle, who was supposed to be chosen, and that is why Creamy and Myrracle are there.
Creamy tells Tookie to take her to the BellaDonna, and Tookie stammers that they could get in trouble. Creamy ignores her and starts heading towards the O. She tells Myrracle to follow her. Everyone else just sort of goes with her for some unexplained reason.
Remember the cute moments between Myrracle and Tookie earlier in the book? The ones where it was obvious they cared about each other, even if they didn't get along? I miss those.
Creamy arrives at the BellaDonna statue and yells at it, saying she knows that the BellaDonna can hear her.
Creamy calls the Tournament idiotic before going back to yelling at the statue. The statue comes to life and looks down at Creamy. Then the BellaDonna begins to sing.
You cross. He/she/it crosseth. "Mine" was used before "h" and vowels. (For example: "Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done." — William Shakespeare, Richard II) If you don't know how Early Modern English grammar works, don't use it.
Unless the punishment is ALIVE, I doubt this is the case.
Grammar, you fail it!
Congratulations, BellaDonna. Your poetry is worse than Ci~L's!
To my delight, Creamy interrupts the BellaDonna's song and demands to talk to her in person. Tookie and the Unicas are shocked by this for some reason.
Cue the BellaDonna telling them which ZipZap to take to get to her.
Ci~L tries to stay behind, saying that Creamy and Myrracle remind her of when she dug up her friends.
Rather than address this, Bravo shows up instead, still bruised from Tookie's fight with him earlier.
Tookie's mouth fell open. How dare he do that, of all things? She made up her mind that she would never forgive him. Ever.
You might as well be dead to me, Bravo.
Tookie, you are a petty, self-centered, abusive, vindictive shrew. I feel sorry for any guy that ends up with you.
Tookie begs Ci~L to come with her, and Ci~L finally agrees (after mentioning that she has an urge to find a reed). Personally, I would just let Creamy go see the BellaDonna by herself. I have no clue why Tookie and the others are going along. Either curiosity or because the plot said so.
They go through the ZipZap and arrive someplace that smells like blood oranges.
Yes, make fun of the two people who just spent MONTHS crossing a deadly, impassable area because they haven't had a chance to bathe. Why are the protagonists being catty?
They realize that they're in the OoAh.
No, really. I want to know why all the good guys are so catty. Because they are never called on it. The "good guys" are like a bunch of negative stereotypes of models and women mixed in a blender with a few one-dimensional traits thrown in for good measure.
The OoAh's walls show a scene that reminds Shiraz of a "Labrian fairy tale."
Creamy says this has the BellaDonna "written all over it." I'm assuming we'll get some backstory on the two before the book is over. Because it's pretty obvious they know each other.
Persimmon steps through a curtain to meet the group. Persimmon tells them that they aren't allowed to get close to the BellaDonna or touch her. They also aren't allowed to breathe incessantly, and are only supposed to speak when spoken to.
Creamy is unimpressed and pushes her way in. The room is empty except for a statue of the BellaDonna in the corner. Cracks appear in the statue.
Dylan, please shut up. Every line that comes out of your mouth makes me dislike you more.
Flesh, bone, a person was under there.
The BellaDonna slowly emerges, wearing 7-inch stilettos. All of the stone has now fallen off except a mask covering her face. She stands up and slowly says (with many ellipses): "How dare you demand to see me!" Then the mask falls on the floor and the chapter ends.
At this point, I am completely unsurprised that no questions were asked of Creamy and Myrracle. Heaven forbid our protagonists actually act like real people and be curious about the situation.
I would have been happy with someone asking a question, and Creamy shouting them into silence. But we don't even get that. The girls just follow her mutely, except for the occasional snide comment or comment on their surroundings.
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