Well this should offer up a change
Vic, after having departed for a nearby village in the Alps, decides to go on a multi-day hike over a glacier. Again, he’s rather dramatic in his whole approach to nature, marveling on it apparently out loud as he goes on his hikes. Suddenly, he sees a figure running up on him. It’s his creation, who we finally have speaking.
The creation, who I’ll now refer to as Adam since he seems to have become his own character, is really bent out of shape in confronting Victor. He’s angry and confused and upset all at once over Victor’s apparent abandonment of him. He wonders why Victor didn’t just kill him, and he asks that Victor at least listen to his story of how he came to be here before he decides whether or not he’ll continue in attempting to kill Adam. Adam, for his part, seems really reasonable about the whole thing. He’s rather fond of the religious metaphor of their relationship (which… yeah that’s fair). And he’s.. actually quite a bit like Victor. Both very dramatic and concerned with their pain.
Victor is trying to not have any of Adam’s complaints and questions though. Which is totally unfair! Adam is pretty blameless in this exchange so far. Eventually though, Victor agrees to go hear Adam out in a nearby shack.
A few things: Adam’s initial charge at Victor is accompanied by a rather extreme threat against not only Victor but his family as well. So, is the book actually lending credence to the possibility that, against all odds, Adam somehow made it out to Geneva and then found Vic’s specific family and murdered his brother? I mean, where they are now is even further from Ingolstadt, so I guess so. Don’t know how I’ll take it if I found out he killed William intentionally.
Also (total fake question) so how did Vic know a poem that Shelley’s husband wrote in 1816 when the story takes place in the 1700’s? Mysteries abound!
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