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Vixen (her eyes glitter): Something there is in the wide world abhors stasis. It undermines, in sly ways, those of us seeking perfection. A day came when the Alchymist surprised me in my bath where I reclined undisguised, wearing my naked self. He saw my fox-form, and the love of our glamour evaporated.
Dog-Head (sighs): The Alchymist is a proud man. He cannot bear to be shown that which he cannot know.
Vixen: I escaped. I always escape. But my lover’s passion is distilled now into wrath and madness. The Alchymist has vowed to destroy me. For this purpose, he abandoned experiment on senseless matter. He commenced experiment on the sentient. Fury deformed his mind, made him monstrous.