The Scarlet Godwins - Twelve

Marley prays for the strength to tell Otto all she knows. She laments the fact that she made a vow not to use foul language; she could have made use of a few choice words. In this letter she manages (more or less) without them, as she recounts, from her point of view, what happened on the last day of Charlotte’s life. Still walking along a beach, Otto is thinking about a day in 2016, when he was left for dead. From her prison cell, Marley had been denying that she'd had anything to do with the murder of her sister. As Otto’s mind wanders to the most damning evidence against Marley, he reflects on the reasons why he finally decided to correspond with her.