Miss Eames' presence is a mixed blessing to Birdie and Bunce: the opinionated and annoying woman ultimately turns out to be a quick-thinking, life-saving force of nature when Birdie's kidnapped by nefarious necromancer Dr. Their work schedule is humming along nicely when Miss Eames, a bluestocking who is researching the faerie realm, pays to accompany them on their rounds. Bunce reduces them to slime and ash with a strike of a charmed spear. With good training, steady nerves, and an exquisite singing voice, Birdie lures bogles into the salt circle where Mr. Bunce, an intelligent and kindly, if somewhat morose, bogler, a sort of supernatural exterminator ridding households and businesses of troublesome bogles that hide in the properties' deep recesses and eat children. Ten-year-old Birdie knows she's quite well off as poor Victorian orphans go.
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