Faintly
Macabreor Aunt Faintly, as she encourages Milo to call herhas been cast into a dungeon. This is
her punishment for causing an almighty collapse in the Word Market. In her official position as
Official Which, Faintly tried very hardtoo hard, as it turned outto make sure that people used
the correct word for the correct situation. Over time, however, she encouraged the use of fewer
and fewer words until, eventually, everyone stopped talking. When her great-nephew the king
found out about this, he was furious, and so confined her to a dungeon.
In
Dictionopolis, in the world outside the dungeon walls, people have now gone to the other extreme
of using too many words. Faintly Macabre, however, is not allowed to have any words, given the
absolute mayhem she caused when she was the Official Which. All she has left is a box of
sugar-coated punctuation marks.
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