#thanks for this wonderful gift
Begun in blustery, bare winter, finished with trees in full leaf… the forbearance of @lady-adventuress in the face of my extended timeline for this @b-and-w-holiday-gift-exchange offering should be celebrated with more gifts that I for one have the ability to give. At long last, this clownish circus reaches its somewhat lengthy conclusion (which is of course not an ending in any real sense, given that the Bering and Wells story is, as we know, endless). I refer you to part 1,part 2,part 3,part 4,part 5, and part 6 for details as to how we got here. The incident that occurred at the end of part 6 was pretty important: an artifact instigated a moment of, shall we say, unexpected intimacy between Myka and Helena, leaving Myka more than a little shook…
Cover 7
Go through the motions.
That’s what Myka tells herself when she has no idea what to do. It usually works.
But now she has a problem: What… what are the motions?
She should start with standing up.
No, she’s already standing. Bad start.
Maybe sitting down?
Success.
She’s gone through one motion.
But that’s as far as she gets, for even though her body might still work, her brain betrays her: she’s overtaken by the ghost of Helena’s soft swift mouth, its fit, followed fast by her own body’s decisive answering rise… “Quit flashing back,” she tells herself, out loud.
