The year is 1879. When thirteen-year-old Ruth Merritt Holbrook emerges from her family's burning estate, bloody and charred, but entirely numb--She makes headlines. Reporters believe she is deranged. They accuse her of having set the fire. All the h...
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Lucius,
I do not wish to over step, but I am interested in your intentions with your Miss Holbrook. She seems a meek girl of gentle intentions and I would only inquire about your proposed testing of her—She does not seem to fit the qualifications you discussed with me. I do not have all of the particulars, but I would assume from past experiences that you will be trying to break her in a manner similar to that of your past subjects. I would ask that you refrain. I have seen this girl and I do not in any way believe she is working for our enemy. She is human.
He did not send her, nor does she seem in any way associated with his cause. From my own experiences, which consisted of a day's worth of travel and a night of dining, I would argue her mortality. She can be burned, Lucius, which is enough proof to show she is not one of them—her ability to feel the burn is inconsequential. Whatever else you may have planned for her outside of proving her transience, I would ask that you do not aim to do more than that, not like you have done in the past. I do not in any way mind what you do to them, but I abhor the aggravation of trying to dispose of the bodies afterwards.
Perhaps spare me.
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