Nicely set up. It’s a bizarre visual, and it sets up the whole narrative really well to have a dual storyline, which could be really cool. Minor point—the wording feels like it could lend itself to Victorian era, or at least to a flexibility in when this is occurring, with the exception of ‘jello’, which didn’t seem to fit as well. Just a thought, style thing really, so not a hard and fast thing to change.

I agree, it felt wrong when I wrote it but I kept it there because I didn’t have a better word. Jelly, perhaps?