Chapter 151
Justine knew that Steven was acting different. As a mother she'd tried to prepare herself for the inevitable day when her child would change in his teen years. But even more than that, she feared he would learn the whole truth, and possibly hate her for lying to him all these years. One day Steven came home from school and found his mother looking nostalgically at his old toy fox.
Justine: I was just thinking of when you were six, and I first told you the fable of the fox and the scorpion. The lesson you seemed to take at the time was you wanted a little stuffed fox. Remember?
Steven: I remember mom.
Justine: One day a scorpion came to a river and wanted to get across. A fox was swimming and the scorpion asked the fox to take him across the river. The fox asked "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion said "If I sting you in the river, we'll both drown and die." Do you remember what happenned next Steven?
Steven: The scorpion stung the fox halfway across the river.
Justine: Correct. The fox asked "Why'd you do that? Now we'll both drown." The scorpion replied "I'm a scorpion." Some creatures just have that in their nature, they can't help themselves or be reason with. Some things, just kill.