This chapter begins with the best clockmaker in the damn universe returning.
On holiday in France, Herr Thiessen is told of a clock at a circus's gates that is reminiscent of his work. I wonder what circus it is?
Upon joining the crowd outside the gates, he is pleased to see that the best clock in the whole damn universe is doing well.
When he tells the woman at the ticket booth that he made the clock, she gets all jittery and refuses his money, and gives him the circus's business card along with his ticket.
Herr Thiessen, as I forgot to mention earlier, loves fine wine, and a tent he visits called Drinkery is the reason for the name of this chapter.
He doesn't enter very many tents, but like most people, he absolutely loves the circus by the time he leaves. He returns twice, this time paying.
Obsessed, he writes a very long letter to Chandresh about how much he loved it, and is disappointed when the letter he receives doesn't include the circus's location. Of course, there won't be Internet for another hundred years or so, so unless the circus decides to come to Germany, he has to fulfill his addiction another way.
His clocks begin to resemble the best clock in the whole damn universe, and according to Morgenstern, the wild cat tamers managed to get their hands on some snow leopards. It's a good thing the EPA won't be founded for a long time, either (about eighty years).
This chapter ends with Thiessen underestimating his ability to make the best clocks in the whole damn universe.
"Though he fears he never does the circus justice in these clockwork tributes."
Shatter Me Chapter Eight should be up before midnight, and next chapters of both will be up tomorrow.
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