Chapter 6
The final portion of a documentary on Teotihuacan, Mexico’s ancient Mesoamerican city and its famed pyramids — the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon, essentially connected by The Street of the Dead — fascinates Pari. When it ends, she scans the cable TV menu guide hoping the show is scheduled for re-airing.
She has the couch to herself. Halo, lying on the floor in front of her, has purposefully crawled under her feet so that they rest on his back. Pari flips through dozens of channels and lands on a program with mesmerizing graphics. It is about volcanoes. Earth is depicted as a giant, transparent marble. A jagged, thin tentacle, a fiery red ribbon, treks from the spherical core to its eruption on the planet’s perimeter. From this viewpoint, slowly revolving
