Again these little preludes. Anyway, today, or yesterday technically, was quite a day, and I was too busy to post because I was wandering the streets like a vagabond and swinging around very fast at 865 feet in the air.
When I finally returned to the hotel, it was after midnight. So I'll be posting at least four times today to make up, if not more. Sorry for any disappointments, but Vegas is a hell of a place.
This chapter begins with Chandresh ( who I often end up comparing to M. Night Shyamalan) wandering the circus on opening night.
Just now I realize I didn't actually explain this, but this is the first night the circus has ever performed, which is pretty important, actually. Whoops!
Anyway, he is searching in vain for Marco during the bonfire, and runs into Tara Burgess.
Apparently, Tara and Lainie aren't even twins...this is only mentioned subtlety, but damn. I'm no geneticist, but I have to wonder what the odds are that they could look exactly the same when one is at least nine months older than the other. I guess you'd have to know their parent's gene pools and...God, I'm sorry. I have to stop doing this. Soon this blog will just be me waxing about the romanticism of quantum entanglement.
Focus, Audrey.
When the last chime rings and while Celia has her 'moment', Chandresh stumbles, claiming: "I feel rather dizzy".
As Tara is helping him walk, Marco appears behind them, having just finished his binding spell.
He soothes Tara and helps Chandresh away to somewhere else, and in this chapter, Morgenstern has written Marco in as more menacing than usual. Maybe it's just his ambiguity about the spell and how little Tara knows, but he seems more sneaky-sneaky and appears to be following a different modus operandi than usual.
After he takes Chandresh away, Tara meets up with Lainie and they talk about Marco, though between the two there is not much to be said about Chandresh's young and (for now) uncharacteristically elusive assistant.
This chapter ends with Tara putting aside the question and the two not-twins strolling away through the circus.
Chapter Four of Shatter Me will be up in a short while and next chapters of both will be out later today.
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