Sure, he couldn’t kill me with an ordinary pistol, but a shot was still quite painful, so I preferred to avoid him shooting me out of surprise. I stepped carefully into the darkness of the campus and, avoiding the light bulbs, I reached the building where Alice, my girlfriend, was staying. “What’s that?” I asked, and even my voice sounded guttural, as befitting my new appearance. The novel is about a perfumer who is a genius and who kills a lot of virgins in order to distill their scent and get the perfect perfume that is irresistible and that will make him loved by everyone. I had to find shelter for the night and remembered the cave the sheriff had told me about. The sheriff pointed to the chair I just got up from and after I sat down, he said, “I’ll explain, but please don’t interrupt and don’t look at me.”
I remembered the burning eyes that had looked at me from the mirror only a few moments ago, so I sat up and looked down at his hands, avoiding his eyes.
