UNNATURAL OCCURRENCES
EXPEDIENCEWith all expedience.
Headlock’s words rattled around the cavity that was Sir Belvedere Magnanimous Wainthrop’s mind. He pulled into Grace Manor’s gravelled driveway, home to Professor Grace and his daughter, a mansion made to look small by the trees that dwarfed it, whilst manoeuvring Headlock’s very own automobile with all the care he could muster; Belvedere had never driven a day in his life. He recalled Headlock’s final words of advice after declaring he too would be going on a journey.
“Right pedal to go faster, left to stop and a steering wheel to do as the name suggests.”
“I should rather take a horse and carriage,” Belvedere had replied.
“That shall not be fast enough.”
“I don’t see why the need for such haste.”
“It is needed,” Headlock had fro
