MARK OF THE BEAST

BY SCOTT KRAFT

MARGUERITE: Well you don’t get fruit like this back in jolly old England, I’ll say that.

ROXTON: Yes, a veritable Garden of Eden, complete with an enticing Eve.

MARGUERITE: Oh…care for a bite?

MARGUERITE: When I catch that pilfering primate, I’ll have his guts for garters.

ROXTON: Charming.

MARGUERITE: This was the Moriarty of all monkeys. He had a stack of trinkets like you’ve never seen.

MARGUERITE: Are those mice you have in there?

CHALLENGER: Technically speaking, they’re a dwarf species of the indiginent South American Hydrocoirous, but as Shakespeare might say, a rodentia by any other name…

MARGUERITE: They’re very glossy looking.

CHALLENGER: Well they should be. I found them in our food supply.

VERONICA: This isn’t a joke Roxton. I think you should put it back where you found it.

ROXTON: Oh, no argument from me. Marguerite has claimed it for her own though, in that certain way she does.

MALONE: Marguerite, I think this fever’s really staring to affect you.

MARGUERITE: That’s funny, I’ve never felt more normal in my life.

MALONE: Ok, well, why don’t you sit down and when Roxton comes home you can tell him all about it.

VERONICA: I think your senses are playing tricks on you.

CHALLENGER: Oh, nonsense, my faculties have never been keener.

VERONICA: Oh, which faculties are those?

CHALLENGER: The more we eat, the better prepared we are to fight our enemies.

ROXTON: Fight them? Why not eat them? Blood soup and leg of savage would certainly cure my hunger pangs.

VERONICA: Challenger, when did you get back?

CHALLENGER: I’m not quite sure. I remember being captured by the Canu, the next thing I remember, I was waking up down in our compost heap with a most disturbing taste in my mouth.

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