featheredgrace:The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket ↳ letters from beatrice: (3/6) “I have f
featheredgrace:The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket ↳ letters from beatrice: (3/6) “I have found you at last - but you’re not here. The shepherds told me that a man of your description (average height, not bald, fully clothed, with the initials L.S.) lived in the hills for a few months as "a brae-man,” a phrase which here means “a man who lives in the hills.” They say you rarely ventured out of a small cave - “as if you were waiting for someone,” the eldest shepherd said, ringing his cowbell to call to his flock, and looking me very carefully in the eye. I traded them a ring on my finger, emblazoned with the initial of someone I believe you once knew, for a yak ride to see the cave for myself.Your cave is a miserable place - drafty, bat-infested, and decorated with hideous wallpaper. Whatever belongings you brought here, you took them with you when you departed - the only item I have found is the scrap of paper on which I am writing this letter.” -- source link