TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

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The inquisitor discovers an unfinished image among the engraving tools. Melchior enters and puts his wife’s veil down as the neighbor inquires further:

“What is that there?”

“Two Siamese newborns, seemed fitting seeing how we’re seeing a lot of abnormal births in Strasbourg these days.”

The draper couldn’t believe it:

“Children fixed together at the forehead… Has God become insane?”

“I finished the image when Enneline came back from pont du Corbeau.”

“Oh, you both as well…”

“What else can you do?” the illustrator grimaces. “In our home, we’re chewing on sheets of engraving paper that we no longer sell. We’re eating away at the reserve like rats.” The laborer contemplates at length the image of the two children, 117