The title of this post is not a joke about 2020 having gone on for years*, it's a reference to the time skip between seasons one and two of Blood on the Severn. We're back with the Coterie now in 2017. Janusz is even older** than before. Nanjizal is calmer***, Matilda is playing politics, and Carl is writing poems about himself:
A beauteous man can hide a fatal heart
With eyes that gleam and see too much of all
Above all else, his passion is his art
Which may be his salvation or his fall.
Perfection hides disquiet in his soul
As pressures break his family apart
Without his sister he cannot be whole
Nothing can save him, not even his art
Yet, the eternal night might hide all sin
He contemplates vile and saintly alike
But which way to take and where to begin
He bides his time and wonders when to strike
For Carl for all his nearly human heart
Is kindred first and will make deathly art
Most of Bristol's kindred have put to rest the diablerie of Jonathon Fowler, but the Coterie**** refuse to let it rest or give up on the idea that Roger Smyth, Anarch Elder, is behind the crime. Nanjizal leads a bold plan to approach Teach, leader of the Autarkis, and revitalise the investigation.
Join us next week to see how Matilda does in her election, whether Nanjizal and Carl survive their next meeting with Teach, and what Janusz is going to do to poor Ewelina!
*But it did!
**And creepier
***Slightly. For now at least
****Except Matilda