Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.
Prompt word:
GROUND
The rolling hills surrounding Eibigen Abbey fled down towards the Rhine River as if to escape the scrutiny of the Mother Superior who stood, tethered to her office by the old-fashioned telephone receiver at her ear. An expanse of glass afforded her the freedom to marvel at the wonders of Nature, from the expression on her face she was in no mood to appreciate the Creator’s handiwork.
“By all the Saints above, I’m telling you Sister Edeline, she simply disappeared…”
“You don’t know where she is Mister Lymphocytus?”
“As God is my witness, it wasn’t my fault, the lass is all heart and no head, she…
“Did I ask your opinion of Sister Aclima?”
“No, but…”
“Your speciality and purported expertise is guiding those emissaries we send on missions in lands unfamiliar to them; you are being paid a king’s ransom to provide that guidance, not make excuses.”
“She’s gone to ground is all I’m saying; if you want, I’ll return your fee, minus my expenses…
“You would be well-advised to read your contract with the Order, particularly that section describing the penalties for failure and not waste my time because a young woman, one-tenth of your age and from Indiana, is too much for you to manage.”
About clarkscottroger
I’ve always said it’s a terrible strain on a friendship when you have to tell someone you broke (or lost) their kid.
aiiyee I can only imagine
Mother Superior calls you “Mister”, you’re beyond in trouble, lol. (not to mention this isn’t your run of the mill Mother Superior!)
Not surprised Sr. Aclima ditched Lymphocytus, but she has to know the Order will have eyes on her again sooner or later.
true I suspect she (Sr Aclima) is just a bit in ‘careen’ mode…
I like how even the hills don’t want to be scrutinized by Mother Superior who does not appear to be interested in them anyway. Great dialog between Mister Lymphocytus and her.
thanks Frank
(Interesting problem I’ve inadvertently created… the Mother Superior (Sister Edeline) is not, at least at this point, a particularly sympathetic character. Thing is, the Order of Lilith is very much ‘good guys’. I’ve been using them for a number of years and their essential character is that, as an ages old secret society, they have exerted a beneficial, albeit surreptitious, force for good on the world. Basically their mission has been to counter-balance the rapacious and overly-dominant force of part of mankind…
anyway, I guess even a good organization can have a bad apple and still survive. I mentioned to Reena that I have a tendency to not draw the characters with too heavy a line, leave something undecided or at least the Reader has an option to decide.
Gone to ground? What is she up to? I guess we will find out next week? – Well, I hope so!
yeah, me too!!
lol
Read something about Dickens today how he was what we non call a seat-of-the-pants writer as opposed to an Outliner … I find that encouragine
That is one icy woman. (laughing)
In my Reply to Frank I mention how the organization that the Mother Superior is a part of is not an evil force, quite the contrary (at least when I started using the Order of Lilith in my stories and Sixes and such)
Goes without saying to you, the more enjoyable characters are not ‘all bad/no redeeming qualities’ nor all ‘good’. Can’t say I set out to describe them that way, just seems like they turn out so (not counting the characters that just fricken’ show up on the page with me having to do anything, e.g. Lou Caesare, Anya Clarieaux lol
In other words, they are human. We love them.
Well, that didn’t go well. Youngsters, eh? She’ll probably come back when she needs to recharge her phone!
lol
Dorothy or Maria, either way it seems they have a problem. And how do you solve a problem like Maria?
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl lol