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Speaking
of schoolteachers — Jo is doing something
on the computer, but her cleavage is distracting me. That's
not just because I'm an incorrigible lech — it's
because she's really accentuating it. Also, I'm an incorrigible
lech.
She's
trying to be all surreptitious in the library. Aren't
there any other computers in this entire school? And how
is it that the computer in the library can actually be
used to access the school accounts? And what is that very
fast-moving stream of numbers supposed to be — HEXadecimal?
(er, sorry)
The
grounds — Headmaster David asks Malachi
whether he knows where Imogen's disappeared to. Malachi
makes up a lie about the barman in the village. I can't
believe it's possible, but Malachi's hair looks even worse
wet (he's just been playing football again) than it does
dry. It's really just a sort of mullet, isn't it?
Meanwhile,
Headmaster David is looking very dashing in his perfectly
tailored suit. Why hasn't Ella recruited him to fight
for the greater good?
Malachi's
room — Thelma visits the demon spawn. This
can't be good.
Young
love — Leon asks Tom why he's been hanging
out with Malachi. "Are you jealous?" asks Tom.
Oh, subtle. And it gets even subtler: Tom says that Ella
doesn't treat Leon very well, and seems to make him miserable
most of the time. Leon disagrees. They get in a little
fight, sort of, but Leon doesn't really fight back.
The
dark side — Thelma tells Malachi that it
was bad enough when Ella killed Cassie, but she can't
forgiver her for Maya.
Thelma:
"She'll stop at nothing to defeat you. She'd
even kill me. And that's no basis for a friendship."
Um,
hey, Thelma? Guess what? You're already dead! But Thelma
has decided she just can't trust Ella anymore, and that
there must be something of Cassie in Malachi somewhere.
Malachi:
"I wouldn't have killed Maya, if that's what
you're asking. Well, not twice, anyway."
Thelma: "That's exactly what
I'm asking. So you can find a use for me?"
Malachi: "Oh, I should think
so."
Right,
your lover's dead, twice, and you're dead once, so who
cares about the rest of the world? Might as well indulge
your baser impulses, like vengeance and general bitterness.
Wouldn't want to rise above that and perhaps, maybe, honor
Maya's memory. Oh no.
More
subtlety — Jo's putting some papers in a
desk, or doing some other sinister suspicious thing. The
point is that Ella's suddenly there, with a mousetrap,
talking about cheese and desire and decapitation. Oh,
Ella, you know just what to say to a girl, don't you?
The
library — Malachi can't get a handle on
Tom's deepest desires. So to speak. Thelma wonders if
it's something really boring and offers to go into Tom's
dream.
Thelma:
"We'll make a succubi of the boy yet."
Malachi: "Incubi."
Thelma: "What?"
Malachi: "Succubis are girls."
Thelma: "Oh."
Succubi
are also plural, so I don't know what you're doing adding
an s to the word. Yes, my deepest desire really is something
really boring: it's good grammar. Well, that and a very
deep, slow, thorough, f... um... funicular. What, you've
never ridden one? You're missing out. The ones in Peru
are especially fun. And dangerous. Because (as our Hex
heroines well know) every funicular should be a bit dangerous.
Ella's
room — Leon wants to know what murder is
like. He still thinks he could get used to it. But Ella
says "it's stupid to pretend that we're the same."
Leon just wants to know that he's wanted. Poor boy.
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