Seems I always have recourse to red in stories featuring Mrs. Teasdale--if you've not read "Chrysalis," her previous starring vehicle, I'll just draw your attention to the climactic scene there as an example.
In other news, today was Hourly Comic Day, so proclaimed by John Campbell, the guy who pretty much invented the Hourly Comic--you simply draw a comic for every hour that you're awake, y'see, telling about what happened to you during that hour. Campbell did it the whole month of January, then asked other folks to join in on Feb. 1st.
Eight - Under Hill