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"There’s the tree in the middle," said the Rose: "What else is it good for? But what could it do, if any danger came?" Alice asked. 
"It could bark," said the Rose."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter III. Caucus Race & a Long Tale, 1865.

Fenris: Demons. Summoned by another mage, no doubt.

Lolo — Hit & Run
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30w2sxVxHhY

"For duckings two or three Had power the salt to melt, So that the creature felt His burden’d shoulders free."
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, Book II, #10: The Ass Loaded with Sponges, and the Ass Loaded with Salt.

"The fittest conceptions survive, and with them the names of their champions shining to all futurity."
William James, The Sentiment of Rationality (1882), in The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, 1896.

"Sex has been a mainstay of the psychic business since Victorian days. Half the appeal of early table-rapping had been the 
filmy-draperies-and-nothing-else-clad female "spirits" who drifted tantalizingly among the male séance goers, fogging up 
their spectacles and preventing them from thinking clearly. Sir William Crookes, the famous British chemist, had been so 
besotted by an obviously fake medium's sexy daughter that he'd staked his scientific reputation on the medium's dubious 
authenticity, and nowadays it's no accident that most channelers are male and given to chest-baring Rudolph-Valentino-like 
robes. Or, if they're female, have buff, handsome ushers to distract the women in the audience. If you're drooling over them, 
you're not likely to spot the wires and chicken guts or realize what they're saying is nonsense. It's the oldest trick in the book."
Connie Willis, Inside Job, Chapter 1, Subterranean Press, 2005.

Although Isabela has the hots for Fenris, approach is arduous & well-nigh impossible. Unrighteous Isis sets their things moving again.

Muse — Undisclosed Desires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnZRq35dgEY

Isis: He was gone by the time I got there.

"Not at all; but, you know, there's none so blind as they that won't see."
Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, Dialogue 3 [Lady Smart; she watches him, as a Cat would watch a Mouse.] 

"If their offence be rank, should mine be rancour? Mild light, and by degrees, should be the plan To cure the dark 
and erring mind; But who would rush at a benighted man, And give him two black eyes for being blind?"
Thomas Hood, Ode to Rae Wilson Esq.

"Dead and unfruitful prosperity, sanctimonious Pharisees of our age! Your moralistic and bourgeois prejudices, and the high taste or 
trifles of its merits is nothing but caviar of the leviathan, who rules the circles of air high upon the waves — and the blush of shame 
of your maidens, you beaux esprits is gallic rouge, chalk and alkanet; and not noble, innate purple of healthy flesh and blood, sent and 
enlivened by heaven. —
Without a sacrifical offering of innocence, the jewel and holiness of chastity remains unknown, and the entrance to this heavenly virtue 
impenetrable — Amidst the incense of slumber I saw that rib — and cried, full of enthusiastic, possessive appropriation: That is bone of 
my bone and flesh of my flesh — As an erection unites with its origin, he entered in whence he once came forth, as the body's healer, and 
like a faithful creator in good work, he closed up the hole of the place with flesh, to fulfill henceforward the oldest Maculatur of the human 
race. — .... If a show-trial of fished will-o-the-wisps, which dance like evening stars, may be enjoyed and digested like a Gallimaufry then 
my muse would be no sibyl that dedicates her Medusa-image to the bosom of a Minerva!"
Johann Georg Hamann, Essay of a Sibyl on Marriage, 1775.

Isis let sail Amaranthine help & lied to Meeran. Stabbing Idunna erased resentment: Isis humps the more & still wears Flemeth's amulet.