It would take Bellamy far longer than today for him to come to terms with the fact that Mona Graves may not be as memorable and such a striking figure to the outside world as she is in his world. He had been describing her likeness to anyone he could find that he knew used to frequent the docks or taverns: how tall she was, her accent, the names the sea near her by, for some, he even told them the way she ate and the way it seems she talked to the air, but she wasnât, and her reactions to when someone challenged her, just as he spoke to that first Navy woman the same day as the Temperance crew was lost. ( Sometimes, he spoke of stories of the Temperance, just so he could remember them himself. )
All he wanted to know is if anyone was there that day that saw from a distance, if they knew where they had taken her, for he still didnât know if she was in the same dungeons he was held, or in another. He was also asking for maps of the palace, the same way Atticus would, however, in different ways, for Bellamy cared little for maps at all somedays, and he was doing so now, speaking to a waitress of a tavern the Temperance crew used to frequent. ( His questions were all the same, and all held the hope that perhaps she escaped all along, and was now with Ana. It also would have helped if he was a better investigator. )
In the end, he hadnât even finished asking a question if the woman knew anything of what happened at the docks, or anyone who knew, when he changed course, âHow do you not remember her?â
