Symphony questions part four

“Crow,” the Narrator said, as if he was scolding a child, “You need to wait your turn. Now Symphony, in answer to your questions, I’ll address the second first. The reason why your smoking is that Danny chucked three grenades at you. They landed near your feet and you didn’t have time to respond. The explosion threw you across the room. Normally an explosion like that would have killed you, but given your mutation; the most it did was knock you unconscious. You did however land on a large chunk of glass that penetrated your left side. You healed this by cutting off a chunk of your hair and stuffing it in the wound.” The Narrator paused to catch his breath and then asked, “How are you feeling by the way.”

“I’ve felt worse.” Symphony snorted.

“I’ll bet you have,” replied the Narrator with a smile. “Now to answer your first question. As far as I know right now, you will get your revenge in part. With the device that you had Anny steal from the Old Man, you’ll be able to temporarily disable Danny. This will give you the chance to do him irrevocable harm. Unfortunately, this will not be enough. Danny and Tinnese will manage to escape with the key right before the Space Station blows up. Are you following me so far?”

“Yes.” Symphony replied.

“Good. Now this next part is where things get a little blurry. One of a couple of scenarios happen. The first being that after you get everyone in the escape pods, you ride/drive the wreckage of the Space Station down to the planet. Crash, boom, you fall in a fissure and, in the reader mind, you die.

The second scenario is this, you get everyone in the shuttles, while fighting Tinnese. Danny overcomes the fault the black device created in his programing, grabs Tinnese and teleports to the entrance of the cave with him. You dive into the last life pod. And escape as the Station explodes. Unfortunately, your pod somehow gets damaged in the explosion and it crashes to the planet’s surface. The reader is led to believe you’re dead. But on the page of the novel, you’ll be singing a few lines to your song, ‘Come now boys, come hear my song.’”

“I’ve always liked that song,” Symphony interrupted. She started to sing a few chorus, way out of tune: Come now boys, come hear my song, Drain your glasses, now slam them down, Come now boys, come sing along…” The rest of the characters grabbed their ears and groaned. “For the love of the Crow (even the Crow said it this time) please make her stop.

“If I may continue, Symphony,” the Narrator said.

“Fine, fine whatever you say, Narrator Almighty,” Symphony said. “I was just having a little fun.”

“Anyway,” the Narrator continued. “Along with singing the song…”

Symphony started humming really loud. The Crow said. “I’m warning you, woman. Shut-Up.”

“Make me." Symphony replied.

The Crow rubbed his hands together and Symphony burst into flames.

“Crow,” the Narrator barked. “You can’t go about setting your fellow characters on fire, no matter how bad they sing.”

“Ah geez, come on. I was just having a little fun.” The Crow replied.

The Narrator smiled slightly as he reached for a cord above his head. Pulling it, he watched as several bucket loads were dumped on Symphony’s head. Waiting until she was healed completely, he said when she was back in her chair, “you’ll be chanting, Amos where are you? After that, you’ll take over Corvus and remake it in your image. Amos will be by your side, and there is a chance that you’ll meet Nosos again in a sequel to the novel.”

“Why, what happens to Nosos and the Old Man?” Symphony asked.

“I’m sorry, Symphony.” The Narrator replied. “You have already asked your three questions. It’s Tinnese turn.”