hear her steps
“AND THE QUEEN gave birth to a child who was called Asterion…”
- Jorge Luis Borges, The House of Asterion
INTRODUCTION
Morgan was born angry.
Dad said she came into the world screaming. Not crying, just screaming. He said tiny her face was bright red, like a cracked pomegranate, and he had been scared that the little veins bulging on her forehead would burst and her vocal cords would tear.
She only stopped screaming when the nurse handed her to Mom. To Tara. If she was handed over to Dad or Ophelia or Caspian she would start screaming again and it took six months for this habit to stop.
Now that she thinks about it, her constant screaming probably caused a lot of tension back then. Well, that and the Hush-Hush.
Her mom - Tara - said that the Hush-Hush not only cursed the town when it dried up the lake, but their family as well.
(Huge, hulking, standing in the middle of the road…)