The Veiled Lodger: Peer Group

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Title: The Veiled Lodger: Peer Group
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: She might have options.
                                                                                       
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They were all veiled in some way.

“Death isn’t the only option,” one dapper white-masked fellow said. “Have you considered living in the sewers of Paris and stalking a favoured tenor or baritone?”

“Or consider piracy,” a black-masked man said, one hand on his sword. “The Veiled Pirate Roberts might strike even more fear into people.”

She already felt better.

Comments

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Hee, hee. This made me laugh. In a very unfunny story. Nicely done.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Why should men have all the fun of slinking about with their faces covered and doing weird things?

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I love the tragicomedy in “Have you considered living in the sewers of Paris and stalking a favoured tenor or baritone?” ^^

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I never understood why PHANTOM OF THE OPERA was supposed to be So Romantic - a hideously-deformed man kidnaps a woman he's obsessed with and drags her into the sewer where he lives. That's a news story, not a musical.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

By far the best ending for this story.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Oh I think so. And if she retains her circus skills, she might go into catburglary like Raffles.

[debriswoman]

Oh, that would have been so much cheerier for her:-)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yeah - a masked woman with circus-like acrobatic skills can go into cat-burglary, piracy, vigilantism (the original draft had Zorro encouraging her to aid the poor)...

[debriswoman]

She would have been brilliant:-)

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

What a good thought. Thank you.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

It's nice to be able to think beyond the 'doomed Victorian woman' milieu.