Equinox
ProserpinaA curious thing happens to Proserpina that night.
After a dinner—where she updates everyone on what she’s discovered about Beltane—and after they reconvene in the library, she lays down on one of the sofas and falls asleep and dreams.
As dreams go, it’s a fairly boring one. It’s set in the library, late enough that the incorrigibly early-rising Rebecca has fallen asleep on the opposite couch and Delphine has dozed off in a nearby chair, phone in hand. The boys are seated on the floor by the fire, passing a bottle of scotch between them, and the fire’s mostly burned itself out. There’s no longer any real flames, just a reddish glow and the occasional lonesome pop cracking through the room, and most of the light comes from a lamp near Delphine’s chair, glinting off th
