Stitches swipes her hair to the sides of her head. She swirls around in a clumsy manner while admiring her own body. Stitches seems to be halting her attacks briefly. You are surprised yourself how easy it was to actually persuade her...
When you tell someone not to leap from a cliff and they do it anyway, how should you react? What about the second time? The third? The thirtieth? I took that man under my wing. I told him what would happen. Now it has. His experiment didn't fail. It was a success. Of course he's miserable. The rocks below are incredibly sharp. They would dice anyone to ribbons – including you, if you're foolhardy enough to jump after him.
One tranquil day of ease and happiness followed another in quiet succession; and with these unsophisticated barbarians the history of a day was the history of a life. They were not caught up in any of the ancient goings-on which warrant even the briefest of mentions in any of the historical works that survive to this day; nay, they were as unknown to the outside world as it was to them, a fact which certainly does contribute to the brevity of this article. But why would that brevity be a bad thing? Indeed, what has extensive knowledge of a certain species of mankind ever wrought? Nothing, nay, a worse thing yet!
Perhaps you're right. The power is ebbing from the pieces, from the coral – I don't belong here anymore. But I will not leave my legacy to a blood-sucking neophyte who doesn't know their Sicilian from their Caro-Kann.