Cartoon Theories Novels & Stories

“That's not how I heard it—” “Look at it as a socio-psychological experiment—” “I don't think that is even a word—” “She has posed a theory and you are going to attempt to disprove it.” “Scientifically,” Finn muttered sarcastically. “Exactly,” Carter enthused, completely missing the derision in Finn’s voice. “Carter, I really don't think this is a good—” “It's so perfect I couldn't have written a better script myself,” Carter said. “If you don't believe me, poll your readers and ask them.”

But now, with three days of not-dying under my belt — and one successful feeding — I was starting to form theories. Theory one: It was sick. Rabid, maybe, or brain-damaged somehow. That would explain the size (mutation?), the strange behavior (confusion?), the refusal to attack (inability?). Theory two: It was hunting me the way a cat hunts a mouse. Playing with its food, waiting for me to run so it could chase. Some predators did that — enjoyed the game as much as the kill. Theory three: The impossible one. The one I kept pushing away because it made no sense, because it sounded like something out of a fairy tale or a fever dream.

Aldric composed and calculated and making no dramatic movements was, counterintuitively, more concerning than an Aldric who panicked because composed and calculated men with thirty years of institutional knowledge and nothing left to protect had a specific kind of freedom that was worth taking seriously. "He won't do anything overt," Caius said. "That's not how he operates. His entire method has been institutional rather than personal; he uses systems, processes, and the machinery of the academy's administration. With that machinery suspended, he doesn't have a mode of action that fits his pattern." "His pattern," Zara said carefully, "was built on the assumption that nobody knew what he was

"The three theories," I began, "are positively conceivable. Assuming what we recognise, we may deliberate them quite believable. But they are still theoretical. In extra words, they may be precise, but their correctness is by no way established. As such, they signify three areas of indecision. However, I do not regard these doubts as major flaws in our case, both because in all three examples, several reasonable replacements exist, and because these propositions are all efforts to respond consequential, or even relating, questions. We may never find acceptable responses to all these distant inquiries, but the fundamental of our case is built on solutions to other, more dominant, questions. D

That’s our mission. The main reason people believe that theory is because the magical creatures that come through it are like zombies: mindless, violent, and lifeless. Every last one of them is twisted and dark, driven by one thing only—kill. No matter how much damage they take, no matter if you stab them through the heart or the brain, if the head stays on, they keep moving.