This eerie tale is set in the city of Uroconium, where Ardwick Crome dreams of a strange ritual from his childhood. The women of his village pursue a lamb; to eat a pie made from its head is consideredgood luck. In that city and at that age of the world, it would have been safer for Crome to seek the source of his dream within his heart. Instead he searched for it in Uroconium.