It was a thought that David was just coming to himself. Aileen's murmur, accelerated the process and snapped the thought violently into focus. Idly, David remembered that he once mentioned to Aileen that she should throw any idea out, no matter how strange it sounded. David understood they had long since crossed the Rubicon of strange.
David smiled reassuringly to her, in that Mona Lisa way he does sometimes, I think, you might be right.
The holes, David explains while pointing them out with his pen, are so similar as to be identical. With the way they taper, makes it likely.
As the one with the least seniority in the room, it all fell to David. Checking again to see if there are any tiny booby-traps, he tells the group quietly, If everyone agrees, I can attempt to use mine and test the theory?
Immediately, David thought of the fateful scene in A Christmas Story.
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