For those who came in late, or have just found us, Girl Genius isn't ordinarily a bunch of silly fairy-tale retellings. Eventually, we'll get back to our main story, which is full of angst and rage and drama and...oh, who am I kidding? It's silly stuff, too, it's just different silly stuff. Um...with some angst and rage and drama mixed in. At the moment, however, we're celebrating the end of Volume Eight and the end of 2008 with an amusing (to us) side story. Hang in there! --Kaja