Chapter 18Mr. Cortes told me at breakfast two days later that I had become the talk of Issabella. My themily reading at Tavares had been on everyone’s lips throughout the city. They were amazed that a stranger from south of the Great Forest could read with such intelligence and wisdom that the patrons who attended did not even mention Mr. Cortes’s clothes.
Andres reached out to me through Mr. Cortes and asked if I would give another reading at the restaurant. His patrons had asked for me ever since my visit, and I was good for business. I would not have to share the stage with anyone. I accepted the invitation and began revising one of the themilys I had read back in Aliki Park. I would go back to Tavares the following day.
As I worked, I thought about Bonita Golde and what she had said
