Vivita, Lavish

An intelligencer who has been indentured to Mademoiselle Geraldine's for twenty years. She occasionally works for the potentate and Lord Akeldama. She has a record of consistent results through established fake identities, of which Madame Spetuna is her most successful.
Madame Spetuna is a fortune-teller who arrives mysteriously aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine's. 
== Appearance ==
An elderly woman with wild, gray hair worn loose and a tan complexion. As Madame Spetuna, she wears a colorful scarf over her forehead, prominent jewelry, and thick kohl around her eyes. 
== Personality ==
== History ==
As well as working for Mademoiselle Geraldine's, Lavish also sometimes works for Lord Akeldama.
At the beginning of Manners & Mutiny, Madame Spetuna is missing and presumed dead, according to the school's files.
== In the books ==
=== Etiquette & Espionage ===
=== Curtsies & Conspiracies ===
She makes a deal with Sophronia to borrow Bumbersnoot in order to increase her standing among the Picklemen, who she is infiltrating.
=== Waistcoats & Weaponry ===
=== Manners & Mutiny ===
Sophronia discovers that Madame Spetuna sometimes works for Lord Akeldama, and that the dinner party Akeldama held with important supernaturals and political figures was at Madame Spetuna's request. 
Sophronia meets up again with Madame Spetuna during the Picklemen capture of the school. Madame Spetuna sacrifices herself to set off an explosive wicker chicken in the midst of a group of Picklemen gathered in the school.
== Quotes ==
* “'Even now, you think only in terms of the game. You are well chosen, little bird. Or are you a stoat?' Madame Spetuna bent forward, looking even harder at Sophronia’s palms. She was close enough for Sophronia to feel the woman’s breath on her skin. 'Give your heart wisely.' She paused a long time over one particular wrinkle. 'Oh, child, you will end the world as we know it.' Madame Spetuna swallowed and then turned Sophronia’s hands over and placed them, palm down, on the table. She leaned forward, pressing them into the tablecloth as though she might rub out what she had seen.” (Curtsies & Conspiracies, The 10th Test)
== Trivia ==
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