"I was teasing you!" Dan says, giving Bunny a squeeze. He did cry on the walk away from the farmer's market, but now that he sees that Bunny isn't laughing about the situation, he decides he'll take that detail to his grave.

"The Black Swan is Tchaikovsky. Swan Lake. Russian folklore, if I recall correct. It's ballet, which would fit in with some of what we saw." Dan bites his lip. "I remember the music better than I remember the story, but if she's the Black Swan Goluboy might could be Rothbart. But Goluboy means blue in Russian, per what I learned from North."

He gives Bunny another squeeze, because thinking about how he knows Swan Lake reminds him of his mother, and all he can think of her now is her corpse pinned to the kitchen wall, entrails hanging down like feathers and beads on some sort of sick dreamcatcher. He feels sick. He tries to let it pass.

"We need to keep folks' anger from stopping us getting information from Cygne and Goluboy. If they're capable of this, there might could be others who are too. We might could need to go looking to destroy whatever knowledge folks have about how to mindwipe whole towns of folks. I reckon we can assume Kuk's involved, probably as a benefactor or even just an inspiration."