Story by Karl Edward Wagner included in The Hastur Cycle. A bus plunges down a cliffside, leaving a nameless female prisoner from Coastal State Prison free to start her life again. Swimming across a bay to an unnamed city she finds it looks like it hasn't been developed since the turn of the century. Escaping an unknown, and apparently deformed, assailant , she finds shelter with Mrs Castaigne and her maid Camilla, adopting the name of 'Cassilda Archer' (in part after her therapist, Doctor Archer), as a cover. A daughter, Miss Constance Castaigne is mentioned but is not present, it later being revealed she'd been sent to a hospital with brain fever. Cassilda is engaged as a companion to Mrs Castaigne and is asked to read to her from The King In Yellow , from a copy of the play that used to