Buttercup is back in the custody of Prince Humperdinck and life goes on. There are sixty days until the royal wedding. Inigo wakes up and finds a way to untie himself. Utterly defeated, he goes to the Thieves Quarter to wait for Vizzini's next orders. He figures he's a failure now and has no life purpose because he was defeated and probably won't avenge his father's death. He's afraid alone at the Thieves Quarter and begins drinking again, causing a major flatlining of his character and relapse into his lowest state.
Fezzik wakes up confused and trying to remember what Vizzini told him to do in such a situation. He then follows Vizzini's trail and finds him. After he sees that Vizzini is dead, he looks for Inigo but doesn't find him, so he runs and screams hysterically until he finds a cave to hide in.
Westley wakes up in chained in a giant cage to find a quiet albino tending his wounds. He realizes the Prince or the Count will torture him and prepares mentally to block out the pain.
Meanwhile, Buttercup is having terrible nightmares about how she abandoned Westley and the awful consequences she is destined to face because of her decision. The nightmares take a toll on her and the Prince makes a deal with her to send for Westley. If he returns on the prince's ship to claim Buttercup, the wedding will be stopped, if Westley has given up on her, the wedding will go on. When she leaves it's revealed that the Prince hired the Sicillian Crowd to murder Buttercup. Humperdinck wanted a bitter war with Guilder so he could conquer it as king. Since they failed he decides to kill her himself, on their wedding night, and frame Guilder.
Now they begin torturing Westley. The Count has an obsession with pain. They torment him by promising freedom if he admits the name of the Guilderian that hired him so that he will be both physically and psychologically tortured. Obviously no one hired him. Whenever he is tortured, he doesn't feel the pain because he takes his brain away. Afterward the albino always heals him and feeds him. The Count and Prince question Buttercup to find better ways to torture him. Meanwhile, the Count is building a Machine.
Now the Prince is busy with King-like business, like planning for the Florinese 500 year anniversary. He tells Yellin, the Chief of All Enforcement in Florin City, to form a Brute Squad to empty the Thieves Quarter while Count Rugen suddenly finishes his machine. He tortures a wild dog to the point that everyone in Florin can hear it's scream. Naturally, the Count decides to use it on Westley because he could see through his performance and wished to make him endure true torture. He collects data for a book on pain he wishes to write and he finally breaks Westley, sucking 20 years from his life. When Buttercup keeps asking about news of Westley and saying how perfect he is and how much she loves him, the Prince loses his temper, drags her to her room, goes to the Zoo of death and uses the machine to take Westley's last 20 years, subsequently producing a scream loud enough for Inigo to hear, and killing him.
Fezzik turns out to be part of the Brute Squad and saves Inigo, nursing him back to health and sobriety. When Inigo hears the sound of Ultimate Suffering, he knows it's from the MIB and assumes it's from heartbreak. They follow the sound to the Zoo of death, knock the Albino unconscious and go into the trap entrance.
The main character development is in the revealing of Humperdinck being a villain and how he becomes more ruthless. The vocab I wasn't 100 % on and that was new is listed below:
pg. 233
feculence- feculent (adj.): (omg! It's not in Webster's Dictionary)
Full of foul or impure matter; fecal. |
ordure (n.): Excrement
pg. 257
perturbed- perturb (vb.): to disturb greatly especially in mind; upset.
pg. 264
adroit (adj.): dexterous with one's hands; shrewd, resourceful.
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