Sarah Mac’s Reviews > Secret At Orient Point > Status Update

'As we ran along the wharf trying to catch him, he climbed into the boat & pushed off. He had set the music box on the seat with him. The lid had come open, & as we reached the end of the wharf, the tinkling music floated eerily up from the waves.'

'Trembling, I sought & found the ladder below me. There was no light, & while outside I had the faint moonlight to help me, inside the attic it was pitch black.' .... Dark attic > Moonlit roof. Always. :P

'I was impatient to see David, & yet also thankful that I had some time to prepare myself. I knew I had been victim of some of the same feelings that had made my mother throw herself at Gerhard Langermann until he could no longer tolerate the threats that must have surrounded their illicit love.'

'I had tried to convince myself that what I felt for him was compassion, but I knew that was a lie. His fingers touched my cheek, & tears rolled out from under my eyelids. Born of the loins of sinners, my mind hammered at me, could we not escape the sin?' ....INCESTUOUS PASSION!! strikes again.

'I walked closer, tilting my head to study the brushstrokes, for I thought the artist had caught something of the man's resignation & pain. His hands rested on the back of a leather armchair, & I looked at the long fingers with morbid curiosity. These were the hands that had caressed my mother -- graceful hands, almost delicate for a man, but long enough to wrap around her slender throat.'

'Events were moving ahead, but with every step I took, I was heading for an abyss of my own creation. Of the occurences in which I was about to become entangled, I had only myself to blame, & if I saw any of the warning signs, I failed to heed them.' ....Bwaha. That trope never gets old. >:)

'Over the years, I'd become fascinated with the love affair that had evidently led to my birth.' ....So Erika has romanticized her own illegitimacy. Color me intrigued. :D