Agony is a dark feeling, a feeling of intense pain or anguish.
Agony might be experienced when one is in terrible physical pain, such as when receiving surgery or having a tooth pulled, or when one is experiencing terrible emotional pain, such as learning the woman you loved for so long has died, their children abandoned.
In the inevitable case of this, two people felt terrible agony when Violet got shot by Ellington Feint in the chest. Klaus felt emotional agony, as he knew he would possibly be losing his sister after all this time. And Violet felt great physical agony as she felt a gun shot in her chest, most certainly hitting things bullets were not meant to hit.
Klaus gave loose a resonating scream, running towards Feint to attack her. Feint simply took quick aim and shot Klaus in the leg, him falling to the ground. Duncan and Isadora went to Violet and Klaus respectively to assist them, as Feint turned to face me.
"Lemony. You're still the nosy brat I met in Stain'd-by-the-Sea." She scoffed. "To think we were friends.
"I was never nosy, I had a job to do." I replied coolly, looking at Feint.
"So?" Feint retorted. I could see Violet coughing. I had to get this done and over with.
"I need you, Lemony. Only you can do it. Unless you had a child, but, we both know you'll never have a child."
If only she knew how much dramatic irony was at play right now. Simply put, dramatic irony is when a person makes a harmless remark, and someone else who hears it knows something that makes the remark have a different, and usually unpleasant, meaning. For instance, if you were in a restaurant and said out loud, "I can't wait to eat the veal marsala I ordered," and there were people around who knew that the veal marsala was poisoned and that you would die as soon as you took a bite, your situation would be one of dramatic irony.
And now, this was at play.
"Now." Feint said. "You will summon the Beast…" She said, trailing off, unspoken threats in her voice. An unspoken threat can be worse than a spoken one, because you never quite know what will be done exactly.
"Not right by the wate—" I started, but Feint punched me.
"Now, or I shoot your daughter!" Feint started. "Or, Beatrice's I guess… you care about her like a daughter… Oh."
The saying 'the cat is out of the bag' means tha a surprise has been leaked, or revealed, and has absolutely nothing to do with sticking calico cats into brown paper bags, or any type of cat into any type of bag.
This saying applied when Ellington Feint put two and two together — the reason Violet had been distressed and out in the open alone, my quick move to rescue her, me trying to stall and keep her uninvolved.
Feint laughed.
"I won't do it if she's hypnotized you know." I said reluctantly, as with the cat out of the bag, trying to hide it from Feint was pointless.
"Be glad I only have one bullet left, Lemony. Because the stupid orphan made her ignore me, she's useless like this anyway. The keyword is statue." Feint said, which Klaus quickly used. As did Duncan. And Isadora.
Violet's mind returned to her, which is not to say that her mind waltzed to the Hotel Denouement and jumped into her skull, but rather she gained control of her mind and her memories.
She recoiled in pain, caught off guard as to the bullet wound in her chest.
And as Ellington Feint aimed the gun at Violet Baudelaire, I knew I had stalled as long as I could.
I no choice but to summon the Bombinating Beast, or my daughter would die today.