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Hénrie breathed out a displeased sigh, scratching the nape of his neck with furrowed eyebrows and a disoriented countenance.
❝ I do wish you hadn’t found out this way…
—I do wish you hadn’t found out at all, to be quite honest.❞
He took his precious time, wiping the gore blandly off of his knife with his handkerchief, as he looked at her casually.
❝ You’re a lovely woman, Miss Daaé. It displeases me to know that you have had to become a victim to enduring such a violent affair. If I had know you were standing there… ❞
He glances down at the anonymous man laying at his shinned shoes.
❝ —…then this man’s fate may have taken a different turn. ❞
--Oh, the unparalleled horror! The pain stung, that constricted her chest until it felt she couldn't breathe-- such a gentleman he'd been! He deceived her! The blood, so much blood!
❝ H-He-- has done nothing to you! How--? The-- murderer! Murderer!
I'm-- I'll alert the police, I'll-- ❞
Frantically Christine bent to the level of the slumped over gentleman, mapped shaking hands across his limp form. "Monsieur! Wake up, wake--up!"