they drove through the remnants of faeryland-the frozen fountains in the brittle front yards , the pale statuary popular decades ago , the ornately carved doors with their tarnished bronze door knockers-until the vehicle came to a rest half-mired in snow , and for a heartbeat they watched the quiet snow together , she and the driver , content to marvel at this intruder : a strange incarnation of the invasion the menites had long promised the lascivious followers of truff .