Leftover Alphabet Soup
A/N: THIS IS IT.
Well, actually, we're doing a trilogy, so it really isn't, but it sounds dramatic, so…
THIS IS IT.
By the way, Akira, I'm sorting m'n'ms and thinking of you.
And also by the way, girlwithwings329, the disclaimer to Chapter 19 was "NaNoWriMo" repeated, which is short for National Novel Writing Month, which begins November 1st and in which all three of your authors are participating. Hence the marathon to finish this before tomorrow.
randombookworm, your massive suggestion-review warmed my heart.
Disclaimer: I don't know if James Patterson is ever going to finish, so obviously the fact that I said "THIS IS IT" (albeit partially untruthfully) means that I am not he.
I PRESENT TO YOU:
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
By Tassel630
"Hey Max?"
I groaned and rolled over. "Nooooo... I'm not ready for morning... tell it to wait..."
"Max, can I talk to you?"
I moaned again and cracked an eye open. Angel bounced anxiously at the foot of my bed. "Oh.... Ummm... what is it, hun?"
"Well, I was just sitting in bed, and I was thinking about that sentence, you know, the one that they made kids write to practice all the letters of the alphabet?
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
"Yeah. Well, I think whoever made it up was leaving a message for the people of the future."
"Um, okay," I mumbled, still half-asleep.
"Because, well, if you translate it into Spanish, and then anagram it in English, and then take the only ones that make sense and rearrange them, and then interpret what you get, it means something along the lines of, "Cut something if no one dies in the next book you read, because the next time you take a drink it will spill from your mouth, and I urge you to run away. So I was thinking that I read this book Jeb gave us so it totally could've been a plant, and there could be poisoned drink, and so I really think we need to leave and – "
"Angel, I think you're looking a bit too far into this."
She shook her head earnestly, her eyes wide and frightened. "But I really think – "
"Angel. That sentence was invented, like, three hundred years ago by a schoolteacher, who probably had never heard of Spanish, much less anagrams, and certainly was not smart enough to code a message and then make sure the final product includes every letter in the English language to disguise it and make sure it's not forgotten. Everything's fine; go to bed."
She looked at me for a moment in sleep-befuddled confusion. Then she nodded agreeably and went to bed. She didn't remember the conversation at all the next morning.
A/N: If anyone cares, you really can get that message from the sentence. I'll explain it if you care enough to PM me.
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We love you guys.
See you in December.