Lobizona: A Novel by Romina Garber
Author:Romina Garber [Garber, Romina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250239129
Google: qCA6yAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1250239125
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Published: 2020-08-03T23:00:00+00:00
19
There are more people on our bus route now that the dawning sky is light gray.
âWhat did you do to Perla when you took her hand?â I ask Saysa in a low voice.
âJardineras have healing powers. I was boosting her system.â
We keep going in silence for a while, until the question finally bursts out of her: âWhy didnât you stay?â
When we left Luisitaâs together, she didnât question me, but I could tell she was waiting for me to volunteer an explanation. Only I still donât have one because even I donât fully understand yet.
âBelieve it or not, itâs still easier to pin my hopes on becoming a bruja than a US citizen,â I say with a grin.
Saysa rolls her eyes, and I take her small hand in mine. Since weâve locked elbows a lot, I didnât think it would be a big deal, but when she angles her head away from me like sheâs uncomfortable, I free her fingers by pretending I need to fix my sunglasses.
Weâre silent the whole way back, and the closer we get to El Laberinto, the more confident I feel in my decision. Strange how I lived my whole life as a human, and yet already this place feels more like home. I wonder if thatâs because I was always happier in my lunaritis dreamscape than at El Retiro. Or maybe itâs because I finally have friends.
Saysa unlocks the door to my room, and I exhale in relief to see that Catalinaâs still sleeping. As I change out of my human clothes into my Septimus dress, it hits me that by coming back here, Iâm saying Iâd rather risk death than return to my old life. More than anything, it shows me how unhappy Iâve always been. How much of myself Iâve repressed over time.
So when we get to Floraâs crown for breakfast and Pablo passes me the mate, it strikes me Iâve been doing the same thing with this drink.
Every morning, Iâve sipped the bare minimum, desperate to avoid looking inside and seeing whatâs really at my core. Too terrified to unleash my innermost self after all these years of insisting Iâm just waiting on papers for my life to begin.
Even though Iâm in El Laberinto sitting among the Septimus, on the inside, Iâm still caught in the crevice between worlds. And if I donât eventually take a leap, I might never figure out who I am.
So I down the whole drink to find out.
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