For God’s sake, Athenais, let’s get to it. Bless the quarters. Walk the room according to the Orphic pattern set by Pythagoras: step, turn, bisect; cross the floor and repeat, until all the corners are your own. The ritual cleansing feels rather pointed, here and now. There’s no sense of the jinn, no lingering whisper of the hive, but it won’t have gone far.