Hello Everybody, is everything fine with you? It’s not so great over here at the table. I have taken my seat but all is not well. Now, I have to warn you not to read any further if you’re of a nervous disposition. I had to have a lie down when I found out what was going on here… You think you know someone and then it all comes out in the wash… Living on the Edge 140; How Much Do You Know?
This is who was there, this is what they did…
They were siblings. Ludo was the tallest, and a gentle soul given to reciting poetry and rescuing woodlice who had turned onto their backs. Valentina came next. She was more feisty but usually fair in her judgement and fun to be around. Last was Mina who was the smallest, the quietest and the one with the troubled, haunted expression. But no one ever thought to check why she was this way. That’s what the villagers said when the TV reporter asked questions…It was only after it was too late for Mina and Ludo and Valentino were placed under house arrest and awaiting sentencing, that the neighbours looked more deeply into what on earth had been going on next door……Who could have guessed Mina’s drinking water was carefully laced with brick acid on a daily basis? Who could have known that the fatal death-watch beetles had been introduced into her rafters? Who would believe that Ludo and Valentina would stand by callously watching as she became weaker and weaker year after year? How had nobody noticed?… xxx