[ break didn't need to see to know who that chiming voice belonged to
..........
as if having to see that baskerville wasn't bad enough, as if having to deal with the drain rat wasn't bad enough.....now this? what kind of twisted joke was this?
and the sad thing was, he couldn't even say no, because he'd made her a promise he still hadn't been able to keep.
so he'll just smile at her and accept, because there's really nothing else he can do. ]