Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Sept 1, 2019 4:47:16 GMT -5
This answer is completely based on my complex theory. 1 - Beatrice did not die in that fire. 2 - While Lemony's supporters owned the sugar bowl, which contained a whistle capable of summoning the great unknown, Olaf would not attack VFD. That is why Olaf's attacks ceased after the sugar bowl was stolen and after he lost Mycelium Medusoide samples. 3 - The fire of Baudelaire mansion and the alleged death of Beatrice and consequently the disappearance of the sugar bowl, allowed Olaf to try to destroy VFD again. 4 - Olaf did not set fire to Baudelaire Mansion. 5 - Beatrice herself set fire to the Baudelaire mansion. Beatrice has planned this for years, as indicated in TBL, especially in the poem My Silence Knot. She viewed the marriage to Bertrand as a play, and one day that play would end, the curtain would come down and the silence would be broken by the one who died, in which case Beatrice herself could finally marry Lemony after many years of secrets. . Beatrice and Bertrand planned something important and secret for that fire morning, so they sent their children to the beach. (Maybe Bertrand is alive after all, as Foxy likes to think, and maybe he hid in the tunnel for several weeks too, and decided to just split up if Beatrice. Or maybe he was killed by Beatrice, because maybe Bertrand really loved Beatrice. and wouldn't want to let her go to another man.) The fact is, the fire was planned, and the survivor or survivors hid in the tunnel with supplies for several weeks. Before setting the house on fire, they informed Mr. Poe, using a fake name, that the children were on Brinny Beach, and asked the banker to pick them up.
