"Daddy, where'd Momma go?"
"Away, my darling girl,"
"Why Daddy. I wanna be like a real family, Daddy. Really families have mommies." Matilda Asked. All she wanted was to be normal.
"Because normal is a fantasy, there is no normal. If you want to know where momma is, I'll tell you. I am going to kill her."
"Why daddy? Did she hurt you?"
"Yes she is going to leave me and take you with her," Karl lied coolly. This was never about Matilda but that his wife had all but promised to tell on him. Matilda was just a pawn. Karl Rotmensen was too smart to be tricked by his secretary wife.
"Why, do you have to kill her? Can't we just… I don't know scare mommy."
Karl had never realized it but it was at this moment that Karl became in total control of his daughter. "What do you suggest we do?"
"We have to give them a hint, don't we?" Matilda Asked.
"I Guess."
"What about a riddle. Hum." Matilda began to scribble something
A tack you must not be to work with me.
"What about that daddy?" Matilda Asked. The reference to her mother's type of work was rudimentary, at best. She could do better later on, but
A Tack you must not be to work with me. I pace, scribble and inscribe. Be here by noon or I'll be a Lennie.
Karl rewrote."You did very well, but your only 8. I trust you will learn over time." Karl went on. He typed the Note on his type righter. "Do you know what a Foil is?"
"The stuff you wrap your let over food in?"
"That's a type of foil. No the type of foil I meant was a literary figure. It is when two things are opposites."
"Like Yin and Yang."
"Exactly.You're the Yin to my Yang."
"Can I be yang Daddy?
"Sure, my darling girl. You can be yang."