sorry to say but literal red herring >>> literal cliffhanger

A Series of Unfortunate Events 09. The Carnivorous Carnivalby Lemony SnicketHarper Collins Publ. UK

Aahhhh what a cliffhanger (literally)

A Series of Unfortunate Events 09. The Carnivorous Carnivalby Lemony SnicketHarper Collins Publ. UK

With the Baudelaire orphans, it was as if their grief were a very heavy object that they each took turns carrying so that they would not all be crying at once, but sometimes the object was too heavy for one of them to move without weeping.

A Series of Unfortunate Events 09. The Carnivorous Carnivalby Lemony SnicketHarper Collins Publ. UK