Synopsis: Several short fictions encased in the frame of a novel, with acts and scenes (theater-like) A "novel in shreds" according to the writer. Collection of short stories illustrating the structure of the courts of the seelie and unseelie fairies in the cycle of Vertigen. The stories are collected by a bard, royal investigator and narrator of the 15 saynettes / vignettes encasing the independant short stories.