Intaglio: The Snake And The Coins - Plot & Excerpts
Now she knew. “...and I had the dream all the time when I was a kid...” Kip gasped, his words a stream of consciousness. “For as long back as I can remember.... It was this dark city and the masses of people pushing and shoving around me… and I knew I had to leave! Go someplace where I could breathe... Fuck! It was awful – I’d always be trying to wake up, but I never could! And then the dream would change… and there’d these missionaries…” He glanced up, face wild. “My mom was sent to a residential school when she was a kid, you know? So I KNOW the crazy shit that happened with them. Horrible, fucked-up stuff. You can’t imagine it, Ava, but that happened… that HAPPENED to my people! Mom always thought my dreams were visions of what had happened to our people! But they… they never stopped!” “A lot of kids get nightmares, Kip,” Ava said softly, trying not to startle him. “Doesn’t have to mean—” “No!” he cried, interrupting her. “It MEANS something! You see, it’s the city… THAT CITY! I kept dreaming about these missionaries in black robes coming after our people… I could see children running and hiding...
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