The Monocle's Eye

Chapter 24

 "The hell did she mean by that?" I strolled down the hall beside Illy.

"That's the problem, I've no clue, and how are we going to find whatever she meant in her library. I'm sure that's where it is, but without her, it'd take us years to find the thing." Illy said, opening the door into the tower to let me through.

"Well then we're going to have to find some way to get it out of her, but honestly, I'm worried. This was our best shot, what if we don't know something, we could be missing any number of things."

"But it's got to be this Elly. Nothing else explains it, and if there is another aspect to the sole blood theory, we've got to figure it out if we want to convince her."

"But she called you a demon when I said it, said you were a vagrant from hell. If that's true, and there is an aspect of that to the theory, is the theory still true. Do we want to argue that we're demons?" I asked, sighing.

"We've got to argue the truth if it's pretty or not. It's my mother we're talking about, she made me shoot a lover for god's sake, she's no saint."

"So we are demons?"

"I don't know." She sighed, letting her head drop low. I came up and hugged her, letting her head fall on my shoulder. "Well, you'd be my demon." She laughed, straightening up to kiss me.

"Perhaps it wouldn't be so bad then."

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"Bedridden again Mortemine, grow up. You can't let your ex-fiancee take care of you like this." He said.

"Who let you in Clock?" I asked, glaring at Rosetta.

"All your doors are sawdust and splinters my Queen, it wasn't difficult. Really though, who did you anger this time that they got wrecking balls in to mess up your doors? Did you really piss them off that much in a night?" He stepped forward, readjusting his tie as he spoke.

"If you get the ears out of the room I'll tell you all about it Count." I replied, waving off Rosetta and waiting until she was out the door to speak.

"I know she's not done much to deserve your forgiveness, but I'm not sure why she can't stay through this at least."

"Oh thank god, someone in this world is still sane. You've not idea what's been going on in this castle as of late, it's the most tiresome ordeal since the war." I said as the Count seated himself in a chair in the corner.

"Well you'll have to bring me up to speed, but if I'm not mistaken, shouldn't Rosetta be dead? Who took the energy to bring her back? That slave girls not but twenty yet, and I can't see who else would bother."

"That's the predicament precisely, and I hate to say I'm undecided about it because it seems so absurd. That girl brought Rosetta back to life in her sleep and gave her energy enough to fly straight here from her tomb in Britain, and I've witnesses to vouch for it. Of course I locked them all up when I found out, but they broke out of my dungeon without any tools whatsoever, bending diamond coated titanium like the rest of us do copper wire. She broke my chains, figured out how to turn to air on her own, can appear in mirrors unconsciously, and put my hand in a bowl over there without even touching it."

"What?" He stood up on instinct, walking swiftly to the bowl only to blanch away from it when he saw the contence. "How the hell did she, why did she?" He stuttered, returned back to his seat in an uneasy fashion.

"I tried to strangle the menace, but these little light bugs swarmed and seemed to eat the flesh out of the air, and I can't get it back. It doesn't make any sense, none of it, you walked right through the doors she vaporized, and thought someone had gotten wrecking balls in here to do the damage. Just yesterday she showed up in my room alone, said Illy was off running the country, and didn't bother accompanying her. They treat me like an old mad dog. This is ridiculous."