Chapter 4: Drafting the Carded SliversAlone with Mark, Parcae prepared for her next assault by speaking directly.
The immortals understand that speaking to humans directly and so clearly that there be no doubt who is speaking adversely affects the human fragile mind. In order to protect humans from doubting their own sanity, or from falling into insanity, the voices of the gods appeared as the person’s own voice in an internal conversation.
“Mark,” Parcae said quietly. “Why did you break up with Sammy?”
Why did I break up? Mark asked himself. Why did I? I knew when I did it, but I haven’t given much thought since then.
Parcae chose a handmade palmetto leaf fan. A stylized sun was painted on the front of the circular fan with a moon on the back. Parcae chose this fan because the flexibl
