So I manage to come up with an excuse to go back down for a day or so - quite good timing as well - apparently there's a bit of a rebellion going on that Eurydice's leading, and Mr H needs me to help to sort them out and "get their minds straight" as he puts it...or their heads banged together, which is what he really means he wants to happen.
So off I go then - quite apprehensive about what I might find out - and I've got to try and talk her into stopping the rebellion too - so that's two rather difficult jobs to manage at once. Oh well, here goes....
Priority Number one for me is to find out the answers to the questions that are bothering me. Just what did she plan to happen, who did she tell, when did she tell them - what was actually going on then.
And as it turns out, she's quite pleased to see me. It's pretty obvious that she hasn't been absorbed into the world down there just yet, she's still angry. All of which really suits me in terms of what I want to find out and sort out - so I start where we left off a while ago, asking her for the history of how she ended up down here, only this time, taking much more detailed notes of what she tells me.
So the plot thickens - she tells me a bit more about the arrangements with Mr H and what he advised her, and I begin to smell a whole nest of rats about it. The idea about snakes came from him, and that seems a bit of a big coincidence to me, plus the fact that there was a snake charmer performing just down the road as well, just to make Orpheus jealous. Snake charmers aren't common round here - so I wonder where he came from ? Thought crosses my mind that maybe I'm being a bit paranoid here, but it all seems too neat, too organised to me. So I make a note to try to find out a bit more about snakes and who might control them.
There's more to follow....
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