So, how do you like it so far? I am not sure I am capturing quite the same feel as in the first part... No copyright infringement is intended.
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Thomas closed his eyes and took a deep breath after sitting down in court with Edith. He wouldn't be testifying this time, and perhaps he shouldn't have come, but he felt he needed to. He then met his wife's concerned eyes and tried to smile reassuringly, but it was likely that she wasn't convinced by it.
Lucille Sharpe's laywer started out by claiming Lucille's behaviour in the Asylum came from memories of a childhood trauma when an especially violent row with their mother had ended with her hurting both children badly.
It hadn't helped Lucille's case at all though, as it had taken two doctors and four guards to hold her down in order to examine the alledged scars. The judge then questioned if her brother had these injuries, as well, apparently to the head. At this sudden inquiry, doctor Alan McMichael, seated next to him and his wife Edith, gently placed two fingers on the man's jaw, turning his head so he could feel for the old wound.
Though Thomas Sharpe clearly appreciated the examination even less than his sister, he held still, and that was all it took, once more proving that while some would say that both siblings had been injured, and had then caused it in turn, only one of them was insane or, indeed, vicious.