Interlude
Intermission ②
With that, Monika finished telling the two stories—the story about her solo operation during the bioweapon retrieval mission, and the story about the con they ran to protect the imperiled meat pie shop during their post-mission furlough.
Once she was done, Thea spoke up in blank amazement. “You know, I have to say…”
Then, she said what everyone was thinking.
“…the heroine vibes Grete gives off are really quite something.”
“What the hell is a heroine vibe?” Monika retorted.
“Let’s say your heroine level’s a one. Grete’s would be two hundred million.”
“I think you’ve got me a little too low there.”
The comparison earned Thea a glare out of Monika. She probably didn’t actually care, but still.
Grete cut in, her expression troubled. “The question is, what should we do? We talked it all out, but we’re no closer to an answer than before…”
She was right. Throughout all four vignettes, there wasn’t a single person who’d obviously been acting shady. Nobody had come across as close enough to Klaus for the girls to identify them as the bride, and none of them had been going on any sort of special missions. They were out of suspects.
The discussion was deadlocked.
Then, someone made an offhand remark.
“Look; end of the day, does it really matter who the bride is?”
That someone was Sybilla. She sounded like she was done with the whole affair.
“It’s just a name on some papers, right? Instead of wastin’ all this time trying to figure out who it is, I figure we could all just start taking turns being the bride. That way, everyone’ll be happy…”
It wasn’t a bad proposal. The majority of the others started nodding along in agreement.
As they did, though, Lily cut them off. “That’s it!”
“What?”
“We’ve been thinking about this all backward. The whole reason we’re in this jam is ’cause we tried to figure out who the bride was.”
She rose to her feet and snapped her fingers.
“But the thing is, all we have to do is pick one now! It’s time we got us a new bride!”
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