The Commonplace Journal of Isadora Quagmire {Poems and other things}

Village of Fowl Devotees

Date: March 9

Esmé took us out of the red herring and tied our hands so we couldn't do anything. Duncan tried yelling for help, so Esmé gagged him. Then, Count Olaf decided that we were too much trouble, and stuffed us inside a fountain with a statue of a crow. There was slightly more space than the herring, inside the fountain, so we could actually sit down. We know the Baudelaires are here because we heard them talking about us, saying how hard they were working to find us. We shouted as loudly as we could, shouting their names, but I'm pretty sure the statue is soundproof?

March 11

Duncan noticed that every morning, a murder (Yes, that's what it's called. Oh, the Irony.) of crows sits on the statue, and when the sun hits noon, they all fly to a big dead tree in the distance. I had an idea to send a message to the Baudelaires via crow, but we didn't have anything to tie the message to the birds. Then I realized that the dew on the fountain could wet the paper and stick it around a crow's leg. I couldn't say exactly where we were because if Count Olaf found the message, he'd know what we were up to. So I decided to send an acrostic poem! I decided on the word "Fountain", and to send two letters every day in the form of couplets. The full poem written out is:

F or sapphires, we are held in here
O nly you can end our fear
U ntil dawn comes we cannot speak
N o words can come from this sad beak
T he first thing you read contains the clue
A n initial way to speak to you.
I nside these letters, the eye will see
N earby are your friends and V.F.D.

We sent the first couplet today:

For sapphires, we are held in here
Only you can end our fear

We can only hope the Baudelaires will receive the couplets, and that they know about Acrostic poems!

Date: March 12

We sent the couplet with U and N today.

Date: March 14

We sent the last couplet today. Now we're just waiting for the Baudelaires to understand the message, or find it at all.

Date: March 20

Klaus and Violet found us in the statue today. We rushed out to hug them, I hugged Klaus so hard I would've thought he couldn't breathe. Then I remembered that Duncan wrote D.Q + V.B in the fish! He seemed to remember the same thing, and asked Violet awkwardly "You didn't happen to see anything written inside the red herring, right?" By the way Violet blushed, I knew she had, but she said to Duncan "We didn't have time to examine it." Then, a mob came around the corner, and we had to run for our lives. We ran and ran, and Sunny kidnapped a fire truck. I did not know she could drive. Anyway, we got underneath some sort of "Hot-Air Mobile Home" as Violet called it. We plan on getting on it and living there with Hector. I'll finish writing this when we're all safe on board.  

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A/N: The story (Or Journal) ends here because Isadora throws her commonplace book to the Baudelaires and can't write in it anymore. I hope you liked the book!  Thanks for reading, LianLily