If I am to make a resolution this new year, it's to find out who sent me an eye just after Christmas.
Yes, an
eye--a human eye, boxed up, and sent to me, and left at the back kitchen door of the opera house.
No, I did not find it amusing at all to find a box at the back kitchen door of the opera house addressed to me. Nothing good has ever been delivered at that door. That was where that boy, the doctor's assistant, left flowers for my sister, first. And now I've received a gift that might as well have been sent by that mad doctor himself.
I have received an eye, boxed up, and sent as a package, almost as a Christmas gift. Perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised by it, and yet I keep staring at it almost in disbelief. Things had been relatively peaceful in the City until now. And suddenly there are body parts being delivered in the snow.
I know I'm not the only one to receive some body parts by post. I've seen a few notes on the Network to that effect. There's a pattern to be seen here, but I don't know enough yet. It will prove to be a message of some kind, or bear some meaning in it.
You know, He-Who-Kills was rather disappointed that he didn't receive such a gift this Christmas. I'm rather inclined to give to him the gift I received. The police force, if there is such a thing in the City anymore, will probably protest, but I don't know what they can gather from such remains. He-Who-Kills would appreciate it more, I think. Besides, I've studied this eye well enough on my own. It's simply a human eye, cut from its socket, with some of the connecting nerves and blood vessels still attached to the back. There are no marks on it, nor peculiar signs. It is an eye removed whole from its proper place in the skull.
If one is really looking for some kind of pattern of connection, one might look at all of us who received these 'gifts' to see what might link us together. Beyond that, there are enough madmen and murderers in the City that we may have been chosen at random. The question, of course, is whether there was one victim or more than one victim. We may have each been mailed a piece from one body or we may have each been mailed a piece from different bodies. There will be a pattern in these 'gifts', if one can find it. It's only a matter of untangling all the knots of it.
I received an eye, and I seem to recall seeing mention of a liver. What other parts were there? We might be able to reassemble the victim entirely if we've been sent around enough pieces. The pieces themselves may be significant too.
There's meaning enough to me in seeing an eye pried from its owner's head--Whoever the victim is, he or she is yet a victim of a murder. And, as I said, I do mean to resolve to find out who sent me the eye of this victim and why he sent it to me.
( [Private to Megumi || Unhackable] )And, yes, for those who were wondering, I've seen eyes pried from skulls before. Although the ones I saw before were preserved in a jar as specimens, as part of a 'study'. I believe they were removed while their owner was yet living. It was not a pleasant affair.
And mine were very nearly added to the collection once.
Perhaps, with that in mind, you understand my intention in finding out exactly why I was sent such a thing, who sent it, and what it might mean. And I do mean to find these things out. As I said, it's my new year's resolution.
It is New Year's Eve. Happy New Year, of course.
~C.
[ooc: Man, do I fail with putting this up or what? So Cain got mailed an eyeball from the Fabulous Tea Party which, you know, caused the obligatory canon panic and all. WHO MAILS EYEBALLS? SRSLY! Now he's just got his teeth into the mystery of it and he'll hang on for as long as he can. Grr grr. ♥HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!]
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