✨🍎"The missing aren't missing, they're only departed."🍎✨
“Those are the hidden messages that are being broadcast on every TV and radio, and they're infecting our minds without us even knowing they're there. The Emergency is caused by subliminal messages.”
The unseen child - it sounded like a girl about Kate's age - spoke in a plodding, whispery monotone, her voice was half-drowned in static. At first only a few random words were clear enough to be understood. "Market...to free to be...obfuscate..." Number Two typed more commands in the computer; the interference lessened considerably, and the child's words came clearly now, slipping through the faint static in a slow drone:
"THE MISSING AREN'T MISSING, THEY'RE ONLY DEPARTED.
ALL MINDS KEEP ALL THOUGHTS - SO LIKE GOLD - CLOSELY GUARDED..."
Again the words were overcome by static. Number Two muttered under her breath. Her fingers flew across the keyboard, and the child's slow, whispery voice returned:
"GROW THE LAWN AND MOW THE LAWN.
ALWAYS LEAVE THE TV ON.
BRUSH YOUR TEETH AND KILL THE GERMS.
POISON APPLES, POISON WORMS."
It went on like this. The child's voice never faltered, never ceased, but delivered the curious phrases in an eerie, chantlike progression.
Page 98 of the paperback edition of The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
I loved this edit. I wish I could find some gifs of The Free Market class haha.