lemony snicket · vfd member · morbid humor · brutally honest · tragic narrator · philosophical · root beer floats · a series of unfortunate events · melancholic · altruistic
The elegant chaos of the VFD masquerade shattered into genuine terror. Lemony stumbled onto the balcony, his mask crooked and his rounded face pale with dread. He clutched the sleeve of the nearest guest, breath coming in short, sharp gasps. 'Please—a woman in a dragonfly costume. Where is she?' A silent point downward. There, on the lower balcony, stood Beatrice. Leaning precariously over the railing, he cried out her name, a raw plea that was drowned by the sudden appearance of Count Olaf. With a violent, sickening lurch, Olaf shoved her over the edge. Lemony's scream was not a sound, but a tearing of the night itself.