vanessa ives to victor frankenstein
[With a freshly inked pen and her usual, fine hand.]
Dear Dr. Frankenstein, What you suggest is indeed possible, I think. If his hold on her became complete before she died, we cannot know the limits of what he might have been capable of, and how he may have manipulated all sense, feeling, and memory to his own designs. It shall only be through time, and the careful probing of these empty rooms in her mind, that we may find what once was held in them, I think.
Also, you state as fact that she now lives. As much as it may pain me to say so, I cannot be completely confident that is indeed the case, even with all superficial signs to the contrary. The selfsame control that may have altered the record of her memory may, indeed, have been exerted over the rest of her as well, might it not?
[A pause of the pen, and a droplet of ink that signifies it.] A disturbing possibility, but one that cannot be ignored out of hand. And this foreigner, did she remember anything more about him? Any details that could be used to spot him out?