Book Five, Chapter 103: Watch Party
You have to choose your battles in Carousel.
We had chosen Stray Dawn, and we had won handily. Now, we would never have to fight that battle again.
So, “we” decided it was okay to spoil the story to the others.
We all piled into the living room on our new chairs. The girls got the couch—chivalry was undead in Carousel.
We were having a movie night, and we decided to watch Stray Dawn. Not the version we had just played—no, we wanted to watch the VHS we had rented so long ago. We wanted to watch Stray Dawn: The Mark.
It was a movie starring the Bowlers, and while seeing our old friends again brought a certain pain, it also brought joy and nostalgia.
We came to find that this version of the movie, altered by Grace’s Detective AA, was very different from the version we had played.
It was about two sisters, played by Grace and Bella, who moved to a small town called Southeastern Carousel that was run-down and in financial ruin.
This version of Southeastern Carousel was much more like the one in Carousel proper. It had many tourist attractions, but not the expensive kind.