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One night, in Hughes Crematorium, Karon had sat on a chair and gestured for Tiz to tie him up, in order to create the illusion that he had been another victim of Mrs. Hughes, and thereby avoiding trouble from the police.
Tiz had picked up a knife and stabbed it straight into Karon’s chest. That blade had not hit anything vital, but the wound had still put Karon in the hospital for many days.
At first, Karon believed Tiz had done it to make everything look more realistic, and to avoid any follow-up scrutiny or trouble.
When the hawk-nosed man, who was clearly from some special government department, came to question him in his hospital room, Karon assumed that Tiz had done it to avoid that group’s attention, given that they were a supervisory authority.
Yet after that one night of slaughter, Karon had suddenly realized something: what of the police, or any special government department? Tiz did not care about any of that at all. He could have completely skipped the act.
So why stab Karon in the chest?
Karon had never asked that question, because he felt there was no need to. It was like an elder holding a child while playing, only to accidentally let the child fall and scrape a bit of skin. Could you really take such a thing to heart?
Moreover, Karon guessed that, at the time, Tiz had been arranging for Karon to remain “well-behaved,” living his life as an ordinary person in the Immers household. In that situation, everything had to be done very cleanly.
But now, at this moment, the purpose of that stab finally revealed itself.
Sometimes, it was truly hard to understand, or even hard to imagine, that an old man could prepare so carefully and so thoroughly for you, merely because of that one word: “...
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