theabjectauthor: (I don't think I believe you.)
Lemony H. Snicket ([personal profile] theabjectauthor) wrote in [community profile] cruxisa 2012-11-02 07:09 pm (UTC)

The one who got away. [he repeats it quietly, wonderingly, to himself. it has so many connotations for him: not only the ubiquitous fish story, but the one woman, her three children as the one narrative, the one sugar bowl ... he can't think about it too long, as it starts making him tear up slightly. he sniffles, pulling himself together, then looks back from the castle to her. the sight of all the bloodstains reminds him that she's most likely talking about neither fish nor sorrows. if the blood is not hers ... but ... he looks her over carefully for any sort of feasible weapon]

... I may regret this, but. ... Who or what were they, miss?

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