I will be the first to admit I have far too much to drink following dinner and inside the library at the castle. Slender Man serves me one hot toddy after the next, leaving me inebriated. As Lady Vampe and her nemesis, the medal-winning Colonel McCarmichael, argue about terrorism in the Middle East, President Trump (Lady Vampe is a huge hater), and school shootings (the colonel believes each teacher should have their own battery of high-powered weapons), Bar hears a window flapping open in one of the downstairs rooms and rushes off to close it.
What transpires is nothing less than dreamy and inebriated confusion for me. It feels as if Bar has left the library eons before, and the lady and colonel continue to argue for the next decade. Bored, tired, and unsure of my present state, feeling
