THE LAMIA’S SOLILOQUY“Is it an explanation that you want? How dull! Had I thought you that kind of person, I might have preferred another. Are you sure that you’ll remember it when you wake up? Human memories are so very adept at forgetting—that’s what makes human minds so ruthlessly efficient, so narrowly focused on quotidian affairs.
“You trust yourself implicitly! Poor fool.
“Very well. First of all, the rumor is false which says that we lie in wait for the unwary, seducing them away from the path which they have set out to follow. It might be true, I dare say, that we are creations of Hecate and daughters of Lilith, for we certainly thrive in the dark of the moon—but the travelers who come to us are those who had no settled destination in the first place, and were disposed to wander
