IF YOU AWAKEN SLEEPING LIONS
“If you awaken sleeping lions, their spirits will devour you. They’ll follow you, then they’ll devour you.”
That’s what the crazed woman spat out on the street to Nicholas when he was walking home along Doroshenko Street to teach a class. Her hair was streaked in red and her face looked dusty, as though she had not bathed in at least a week or so. She had fiery yellowish eyes and hissed like a cornered stray wild beast when she spoke. She had heavy eye shadow caked on the lids of her eyes and painted on her face like a warrior going into battle. And her clothing seemed to be in retro 1950s style, as if she didn’t belong in Nicholas’s time. He immediately understood somehow that he needed to run like a bat out of hell past her and not let her slow him down. Wh
