"No, I met all of you before the Wasp, that time with Crow. I don't think anyone could retrofit a boxmoth into an animal pen...in." Mikodez stops talking abruptly about moths. "Can you do that?"

Time for a distraction. "I can't control my variable signifier," he says with entirely genuine regret. His signifier gambols on the ground behind him, cackling. "Do you know about those? There are viewers -- or you can ask your friendly neighborhood wolf to do a scrying. You get a weird picture that occasionally draws doom upon your head! Sometimes people ask before you date or contract for marriages, because it's always fashionable to add elements into the game of attraction."

[when will we find the timeline with Virmad as a venerable author who published THE guide to signifier-based dating.]