after noon, awake now for eight hours with another twelve awaiting. a sweating summer for advancement of 'talented young author'; reading, writings, and ennui towards those not wanting to be found in sight. Lucien stabbed his twice in the chest, then weighted and drowned the body feigning dead. insanity claimed, a brilliant success to freedom after emaciating and claiming another's mortal soul. claimed was blood-stained Lucky Strikes, and Lucien smoked the last one.