“Good
evening citizens. Your local Council wishes to announce another exciting
competition. The subject this time…seascapes!”
{Female announcer - The Chimes of Big Ben}
I always feel
sorry for Number 6. There he was putting his trust in a young woman who he
thought was Estonian, and probably wasn’t anything of the kind. And for what?
Escape! But not only had he been betrayed by Number 8, but also by both
Fotheringay and the Colonel, but he had discovered that it was his former
employers who had had him abducted and placed in The Village! Why his former
employers? Well if it wasn’t British Intelligence who put Number 6 in The
Village, then that makes the Colonel and Fotheringay traitors! Of course they
might have worked for MI6, and it was MI6 who was behind The Village, but that
would still make the Colonel and Fotheringay betrayers of a former colleague,
and to the department they work for. You will observe that as Number 6 looks up
at them, 2, Nadia, and Fotheringay, he doesn’t say anything. Not wanting to
waste words and energy on them. Besides what was there he could have said which
would have achieved anything?
And if it wasn’t bad enough having discovered that he’s not escaped The
Village at all, there’s this cheery female announcer rubbing salt into
Number 6’s wound. A great new competition, seascapes. Was that announcement by
coincidence, or contrivance? I leave it for you to make up your own mind.
Be seeing you
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