![]() ![]() Sometimes the tip is smoothed over – Chicks as an adult will have her house built upon it – but Daphne is always there, ‘in the dead room’, with her shaved head, waiting to be made better and returned to the nightmare of the woollen mill. ![]() ![]() In the tip, the siblings Francie, Toby, Daphne and Chicks meet again in death and madness and dark moments, and talk to one another and search for treasure. ![]()
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