Status Updates From Azimut

2-23: the rabbit is the North Pole!

Judges say she’s stolen the North Pole, she says she would have loved to but that’s clearly impossible

Manie’s trial in Pondouche

“Our penal code doesn’t provision for any possible damage done to his majesty’s cardiac muscle caused by lascivious behavior, generous curves & suggestive glances… in other words it’s not illegal to break your heart, sire.” Manie: Sucks, huh?

Aristide collapses, egg hatches and it’s not a freak it’s a boy Aristide

Clepsigrue— clockwork birds that lay eggs that freaks are born from

Major runs into Aristide in lab ship finding clepsigrue egg

28: Aristide studying chronopteres— living beings with close tie to time, incl. clepsigrue, aeon (his dad fell finding), clock cuckoos, retro-mix bees, gulp-time flies…

Manie was Aristides student— stealing crone, Bank of Time

Major in helicopter with rabbit freak who’s smitten with Manie Ganza; Major from court of Queen Ether to arrest Manie

She’s a harlot! A con artist, thief, liar & cheater… she goes from court to court & steals their crone collections.

17: Why would she want to steal crones? it’s old money with no value— a souvenir from ancient times.

20: her four freaks— a piggy bank, wood burning stove, little clown guy & sock puppet guy

We’ve lost the north. Compasses all lie now. Every day the north is somewhere else and all the boats gets lost. That’s how my fiancée got here— King

Giant flying fish beach selves on beach b/c lost their way

De La Perue ends up back in Pandouche b/c North is gone & compass was off

Jump cut to ship in storm, Count Quentin de la Perue, Royal Explorer to His Highness Irenee the Magnanimous, King of Ponduche and crazed, brokenhearted painter Eugene, throwing painting of lost love off ship then in after it

Fish man first mate in pants! Mr. Friche

Begins with Aristide & his dad, an ornithologist, finding a rare bird & dad plunging off the tree…