The entire morning was filled with preparations for the wedding—servants bathed me and did my hair and pushed clothes at me. I simply did as they wished in a fog of sadness from which I couldn’t seem to escape. I’d never considered that a person’s spirit could be broken, less even that anyone wou...
I told myself this often, especially on the way home from St. Paul. The dog, which continuously sniffed things up into her nose and then sneezed them out, was dubbed Hoover during the ride. I didn’t have much to say to anyone but her. Luis tried to draw me out a couple of times, but it wasn’t unt...
Kasta was absent, and although my mind flitted to images of her with Max, I was steadfast in shoving those disturbing thoughts away. The rest of the core group of what I thought of as my ‘tormenters,’ were seated in front of the fire, and as I walked across the hall, there was some laughter as th...
