The thing really looked quite cardboard.

They also found rounded granules that are probably accretionary lapilli — volcanic hailstones, formed as material gathers in the air.

[…] chairs—their horsehair cushions holding that musty, oystery scent country parlors have—there was fat modern furniture in pastel shades surrounding a glass table supported on wrought-iron scrolls.

The heads of plants above the crack’d ground perk: