MarvellousHairy 13 Marvellous Hairy - a novel in five fractals -

Episode Thirteen — Part IV (Chapters eight to twelve): Hippolyta
comes up with a way for her kidnappers to get her father’s codes, while
giving her some hope of surviving the whole caper. Rob, Ariadne,
Helena, Erma and Max cook up a plan to get Shute, and let the whole
world know about what Gargantuan has done to Nick. Shute gets some
great news about his ménage, and Rob discovers that he can learn about
things in a new way.
An excerpt:

"As we were going over the notes again, a picture emerged
of where Hippolyta was — not from good detective work, though the
skeptics amongst you will say that’s what it was. I just saw it. I
thought I could smell the Shade of Antonia’s perfume as an image of an
old husk of an apartment building filled my mind.

I described it to everyone, almost like I was reading the
description from a kidnapper’s guide book: “The Skanky Apartments, down
in the un-gentrified part of the docklands are a perfect setting for
any kind of shady endeavour, but if you plan to kidnap and freakishly
dismember an heiress, you couldn’t ask for a nicer location. There’s no
people around, there’s lots of ambiance, and the rooms are decorated in
the original retro style. Just add fungus and decay and you have
felonious magic!”

Everyone looked at me the way they did when the first saw Nick, post monkeyfication."