Nobody but my motley knew the details, but word had gotten around that Sextus, a knight of Spring, died fighting the Gentry. Thing was, every card inside was the Tower, the Hanged Man, the World or Death. It was still there when I came back for it. I set it in the Hedge for a few days, just slid it under the Thorns without opening it. I bought a new tarot deck from a shop in Little Haiti, partly as an experiment, partly out of curiosity. When you can walk unseen, you get to see a lot of the city, and the whole damn thing is crying one word: cataclysm. Since then I’ve seen it everywhere, nestled in the rainbow twists of oil in parking lot puddles, between the strains of the Spanish songs lilting from cars in Little Havana, written in the graffiti code that keeps popping up under the overpasses. I glanced up at the stars, and it only took an instant to read the lines between them, the correspondences and the conjunctions. I may have lived in Miami for the last 20 years, but I’ve never been much of a swimmer. I summoned the wherewithal to build a raft for myself, out of foam, darkness and dreamstuff, and hauled myself onto it, coughing saltwater from my lungs. I felt it from the moment I fell asleep, and before I knew it I was being whisked away through wet darkness, as if submerged in an underground river or caught in a late-night undertow off Miami Beach. It started shortly after the equinox, with a dream, a nightmare of sorts, if only in the sense that I didn’t have control over it.
It tastes stale, like a sneeze, and I add that to the long list of bad omens I’ve racked up over the last few weeks. I can almost taste the Glamour beginning to permeate the air. All along the beachfront the neon is beginning to burn with anticipation of the night. I nod, sending dust motes spinning about me in the twilight of the warm October evening. Red Sky at Morning “That’s how you feel about it?” she asks.
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