Comet Weather by Liz Williams

Author:Liz Williams [Williams, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Contemporary, paranormal, fantasy
ISBN: 9781912950454
Publisher: NewCon Press
Published: 2020-03-24T04:00:00+00:00

Serena

They had watched the comet and drunk too much wine, but Serena still thought that this had been a good idea, even when she woke in the middle of the night with a mouth that felt as though it had been stuffed with sawdust. She groped on the bedside table for a glass of water and swigged it back. Water tasted so good in the midnight dark that she wondered why people didn’t drink it all the time. But somehow it was flat and unexciting in the middle of the afternoon, filtered through the bladders of thousands of Londoners, even if one used a jug. She didn’t buy bottled water, being worried about plastic. Sighing, her mouth refreshed, she lay back into the plump embrace of the duvet and thought about the evening’s conversation.

Ben had a woman there, Stella said. She had not wanted to tell Serena, flinched from it, but Stella could not easily lie to her sister. She had been a bit proud of her devious behaviour and Serena was grateful: it had put Stella in a difficult position, after all. And there was a tiny glimmer of hope, too. Ben had seemed ‘off,’ Stella said. Something wasn’t right. He’d told Stella that Serena had another man but this was news to Serena: you couldn’t count Ward and a drink in a pub, and the oddness had started before Ward had come back, like a comet, into her planetary orbit. She was big on loyalty and it would have really stung, except – there’s something wrong, Stella had said. She was keeping things back and Serena knew this, and she knew that Stella knew that she knew… It was like spies. Stella would tell her eventually but what it meant was that Stella was up to something and it had not yet come to fruition. She had always had a tendency to secretiveness, not due to an innately conniving nature so much as a reluctance to worry people about things before they were fully sorted. Serena had faith in her sister; whatever Stella was up to, it would be for her sister’s benefit.

The trouble was, Stella sometimes thought she knew best, but didn’t.

Thoughts went around and around, a carousel screwing itself into the floor of the fairground field. Serena had long had an issue with insomnia: it was an old friend and normally she would have dealt with it by getting up, making tea, sketching, sewing, surfing the internet. Now, she felt nailed to the bed, sluggish and reluctant to move.

The trouble with you, she thought blearily, is that you’re still pissed.

This was almost a cheering thought. She hadn’t spent so much of her twenties partying without knowing how to deal with that and it was a simple enough fix: drink more water. She half-sat and reached again for the glass. But the glass was not there. Her fingers met something brittle and twisting, prickling like a spider’s legs. It moved. Serena gave a yelp and jerked her hand back, fumbling for the light pull above the bed.

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