The Lonely Hearts dithered a bit over who to lynch, a sure change from their overwhelming confidence the day before. But at the end, Brinn cast the deciding vote to doom
McCaber. She took up a poisoned lance and pierced him with it.
As he lay dying,
Greenie gave a yelp and rushed to his side, falling to her knees. “Tristan, my love!” she cried. “Not again!”
“Alas, my Isolde,” he responded faintly, “it was not meant to be.” And as he drew his final shuddering breath, Greenie fell upon him and also gasped her last. The Lovers lay together,
silent and dead.
Then a strange thing happened. Their spirits rose from their bodies, and two ghostly figures hovered there. But they looked nothing like the
McCaber and
Greenie everyone knew; rather like a
lord and lady of old. They reached out to each other, but a hand from the heavens came down and pushed them apart. The voice of Venus said, “You have failed. You will never be together again.”
The spirits faded, falling away from each other into the darkness of eternal loneliness.
It is Night.
The Living Lonely Hearts Club:
Groin
Aganzir
Gollum
Nogrod
Brinniel
Sally
Shasta
Gwath
Fea
Eomer
Hearts Which Have Stopped Beating:
Diamond (Lonely Heart)
Lommy (Lonely Heart)
Legate (Lonely Heart)
Lalaith (Lonely Heart)
Eönwë (Lonely Heart)
Kitanna (Lonely Heart)
Rikae (Lonely Heart)
Macalaure (Lonely Heart)
McCaber (Tristan)
Greenie (Isolde)
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