Gideon longed to say: What the fuck? “It’s two spells, overlaying each other,” said Dulcinea. “You can’t have two spells with coterminous bounds. It’s impossible.” “But true. They’re really coterminous—not just interwoven or spliced. It’s truly delicious work. The people who set it in place were geniuses.” “Then one half is senescence—” “And the other half is an entropy field,” said Dulcinea simply.