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Summary
Hero isn't telling his family about Mari.
He feels like the subject of a romantic comedy. A Shakespearean one; one where the main draw, to keep an audience's attention, is not the lure of a happy ending, but the entertainment of watching an idiot stumble about in a whirlwind of chaos of his own making. Except his whirlwind carried a hint of hot, stale wind, and his world was made of cardboard and flaky plaster, and--
A Greek chorus laughs at him. Mari is everything he shouldn't want. The audience is tapping an impatient foot.
Hero doesn't mind. He's used to it.
(Or; in which Hero doesn't like thinking about dying.)
Series
- Part 1 of dramatic irony