It was one of those situations where half of the people tell you The Magic Madame lives in an abandoned barn at the end of a winding, derelict old road through the dense woods, and the other half of folks swear she is and has always been known to live in a glass box in the middle of a corn maze.
Well, I obviously went with the winding old road before touring corn mazes, and as luck would have it, that road brought me straight to the start of a corn maze with an abandoned barn in the middle, and in that barn? A glass box containing The Torso of The Magic Madame.
She stared from beneath her velvet turban through cataracts of dust at something slightly to my left. I was alarmed to see her heart seem to palpitate visibly through her shirt, but she waved one ancient hand as if to say, “it’s okay, all of this is normal,” and then dropped a small purple card and an Artifact of HMMM... into the box in front of her like a kind of a velveteen corn barn bank teller.
Here is a picture of a pair of earrings inspired by the Artifact of HMMM... I received from the velveteen corn barn bank teller:
you can buy these earrings here!