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He knows that, eventually, concrete changes will take place in his life, but he can’t conceive of any meaningful change that he’s capable of bringing about. Something will have to happen to him.
The words blackmail, kidnapping, and torture sound ridiculous when Alicia says them in her squeaky voice. They both laugh, for different reasons.
How did it happen? One night, she was the new girl who smoked too much. The next, everything she did hit his eyes with psychedelic tenderness. When he looked around the restaurant, with its antique light bulbs and pretentiously unpretentious paper tablecloths, the space around Jen was activated and different. When his eyes swept over the room and encountered Jen, the thrill was almost tactile, as if his fingers had brushed against an erogenous zone.
“Remy, do you know what else is repetitive?” “What?” “Waves.” “Sure.” “Life is repetitive. Everything occurs in cycles. The waves just emulate the natural cycle of all living things. Don’t resent the repetition—embrace it!” “Yeah, man,” says Remy. Horus laughs, as if it’s a joke they’re sharing instead of one meant to be at his expense.
But Alicia doesn’t check her phone. Carla is cradling Alicia’s palm, complimenting her long life line. Alicia is totally still, as if trying not to disturb a butterfly.
Carla says, “It’s about seeing the potential of yourself and everyone around you. There’s all this invisible energy flowing around us all the time. What we don’t realize is that all these little details—words we overhear or images we see in our dreams—are Signifiers of this universal flow of energy. If you learn to recognize these Signifiers of Flow, then you can channel your potential for transformation.”
Jen says, “But if you were ever really in trouble, or hurt or something, I’d be a really good friend to you.” “I’ll keep that in mind.”
Its eyes are impossibly large, and black, without pupils. It stares, one side of its mouth upturned. Remy’s first thought, empty of fear, is that it’s an art installation. His second thought is that the face seems familiar.
