I'm a loser, I know. I havent seen RENT. What's it about? Can someone PM me?
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Eldora had been in captivity for seven years. Seven years.Elphaba would have scratched Morrible's eyes out, if she was here.
It was the same question for Glinda, Eldora, and Morrible: where was she?
And Eldora thought of the last time she'd seen her father, before she'd fallen into the river and the alligators took her to Morrible's palace for bait…why hadn't Elphaba come? Eldora, even when she was six years old, seven years ago, wasn't afraid.
Her mother surely must've come.
But she didn't.
Morrible seemed to have read her thoughts.
"You've been here for a while," she smiled. "where's your family?"
Eldora didn't answer at first, she just stared at the ground.
"Answer me." Morrible ordered.
Eldora mumbled something.
"Couldn't hear you, dear." Morrible grabbed Eldora's hair roughly.
"I said, 'I don't know,' all right?" Eldora snapped. "how am I to know?"
Morrible looked as if she were sucking a lemon. "blech! Teenagers. Just like your mother. The same in behavior, the same in tone…" she paused, jerking Eldora's face up to look at her. "the same in looks…"
She let Eldora go and paced around the room.
"I know where your mother is, Eldora…" Morrible said.
Eldora looked up surprisingly. "where?"
"Dead." Morrible said, a sweet smile on her face. "she died…let's see…shortly after you went missing. Do you know why?"
Eldora wanted to kill Morrible for smiling, but she knew better than to mess with her.
"No."
"She couldn't stand you."
"LIAR!"
"Oh, but sweetheart, it's true," Morrible continued with the same smile as she opened the window to let air in. Ah, she'd have to tax all of the Ozians to get more money for air conditioning…it was too hot in here…
"She personally wrote to me, asking for your death."
"A likely story." Eldora scoffed.
"Well, darling, you'd be surprised," Morrible stepped behind her desk, fingering the knife and the vile.
"You don't understand, do you?"
Eldora rolled her eyes.
"I kept you alive. I cared for you." Morrible said sternly.
"You kidnapped me!"
"I kept you alive!" Morrible said loudly. She calmed herself down. "now I would appriciate…" she said, getting out the knife and dipping it in the potion… "…if you joined me."
She hid the knife behind her back and slowly advanced towards the child.
Cliff hanger! Hanging from a cliff! And that's why he's called cliff hanger! (has anyone ever seen Between the Lions! Best show ever!)