Yes, that seems likely. And Edmund is...concerned. Very concerned.
...oh Victoria.
The village is empty. There aren't even any birds, and Jill is so tense she can barely breathe.
A shout goes up when they find the first body, then more, and more as they count them up.
"They're all dead," says a woman's voice, and the speaker steps out of the doorway of a hut. She's wearing a fine gown, worn to rags, with her hair pulled up in a coronet, and the bones of her face are sharp enough to break the skin.
"I should know," she continues. "I killed them."
(This is killed-them-because-they-sheltered-me-and-someone-came-looking, by the way. Which Susan realises about two seconds in.)
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Date: 2011-05-03 10:47 pm (UTC)...oh Victoria.
The village is empty. There aren't even any birds, and Jill is so tense she can barely breathe.
A shout goes up when they find the first body, then more, and more as they count them up.
"They're all dead," says a woman's voice, and the speaker steps out of the doorway of a hut. She's wearing a fine gown, worn to rags, with her hair pulled up in a coronet, and the bones of her face are sharp enough to break the skin.
"I should know," she continues. "I killed them."
(This is killed-them-because-they-sheltered-me-and-someone-came-looking, by the way. Which Susan realises about two seconds in.)