On the Thursday of Spring Break, Viola Warbeck returns to campus with the sole purpose of trying to hospitalize one of her teachers in the name of Good Detective Work.
Originally, she had hoped to hunt down Mr. Trullinger and pepper him with questions about Paw Paw but the lucky bastard snuck off campus unscathed. Not to be deterred, Viola stands at the top of the hill leading up to Peckenpaugh, under the arc of a massive black umbrella with her stolen yearbooks hugged tightly to her chest, looking like an absolute fucking Grim. Or the Babadook, more accurately.
It's really just bad luck that Mr. Crockett happens to be the first familiar face that she spots. Honestly, she had been hoping it was Mr. Other Crockett because she does not like him very much, but alas. Out of respect for her WizardLit teacher, she refrains from sprinting up to him shouting, 'TRY TO REMEMBER HOW MR. QUALL'S DIED!!!!' Instead, she takes a subtler yet equally firm tact.
Viola says her pleasantries, asks if Mr. Crockett has a moment to chat, and then stares directly into his eyes and asks, "Would it bother you to know that your memory has been permanently meddled with?"
From there, she confronts him with the EVIDENCE, splaying out the yearbooks in front of her teacher and pointing out all the suspicious lichen. "This stuff is growing in your brain," she tells him, "And it's keeping you from remembering his name." Viola flips to a picture of Li... Qualls and Mr. Potkins with the deftness of someone who has definitely flipped to this page many times, probably in a weird way.
She is far more animated than she normally is during class (she drank a very large Americano while roaming) and appears to be tensely waiting for something terrible to happen throughout the whole exchange. She even closes her eyes when she asks, "Isn't it strange that you can't remember how Mr. Quall's died?"
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Originally, she had hoped to hunt down Mr. Trullinger and pepper him with questions about Paw Paw but the lucky bastard snuck off campus unscathed. Not to be deterred, Viola stands at the top of the hill leading up to Peckenpaugh, under the arc of a massive black umbrella with her stolen yearbooks hugged tightly to her chest, looking like an absolute fucking Grim. Or the Babadook, more accurately.
It's really just bad luck that Mr. Crockett happens to be the first familiar face that she spots. Honestly, she had been hoping it was Mr. Other Crockett because she does not like him very much, but alas. Out of respect for her WizardLit teacher, she refrains from sprinting up to him shouting, 'TRY TO REMEMBER HOW MR. QUALL'S DIED!!!!' Instead, she takes a subtler yet equally firm tact.
Viola says her pleasantries, asks if Mr. Crockett has a moment to chat, and then stares directly into his eyes and asks, "Would it bother you to know that your memory has been permanently meddled with?"
From there, she confronts him with the EVIDENCE, splaying out the yearbooks in front of her teacher and pointing out all the suspicious lichen. "This stuff is growing in your brain," she tells him, "And it's keeping you from remembering his name." Viola flips to a picture of Li... Qualls and Mr. Potkins with the deftness of someone who has definitely flipped to this page many times, probably in a weird way.
She is far more animated than she normally is during class (she drank a very large Americano while roaming) and appears to be tensely waiting for something terrible to happen throughout the whole exchange. She even closes her eyes when she asks, "Isn't it strange that you can't remember how Mr. Quall's died?"