Chapter of tight spots

Before dusk.

Kitchen, Theodore Mansion, Outskirts.

Critic Arley, Critic-Ishire

"Do you think the lord really is as evil as they used to say?" Joyce whispered as they worked in the kitchen with lamps and stories

"A monster you mean? What is your own opinion? You live here too after all" Dorathy countered her eyes red

"I think he is kind and intelligent" Joyce admitted her eyes dreamy

Dorothy nodded in agreement "Me too, he made Critic Arley into what it is and he bought us not for an experiment like we initially thought but to help his wife" she told

"I did not think he bought me for any experimental purpose, Dorathy" Joyce glared at her new friend, but Dorathy waved it off with a shy giggle.

"Also he married Lady Lydia despite she being an illegitimate child"

"He has darkness residing in him I will say though"