Spinning Into Gold by Emma Savant

Author:Emma Savant [Savant, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780998150062
Published: 2017-09-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Dior, you’re a picture,” August said.

No doubt a picture was exactly what he wanted me to be. Pictures were still and silent and didn’t want to deck him across the face.

I smiled angelically and glamoured a slight blush onto my cheeks. “It’s all Calista,” I said.

“Nothing can match the teamwork of my girls,” August said.

My skin crawled. Had he talked like this while I was under his influence? Had I just not noticed?

Around us, people milled around in evening gowns and tuxedos in the lobby of the Aureate Theater, a beautiful old building covered in frescoes and gilded carvings.

This was an exclusively Glim building, and the celebrities and guests at this premiere took the opportunity to let their freak flags fly. Everyone was radiant with glamours. Several faerie women had trendy “living forest” hair, with live ivy and trailing succulents woven through braids and updos. I’d seen at least four people floating airily through the room on fluffy, insubstantial clouds that hovered a few inches above the gleaming marble floor, and servers walked around the room with little fountains of sparks constantly shooting above their heads to alert guests to the approach of the champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries on their golden trays.

I didn’t know what Humdrum movie premieres were like, but I had a feeling they weren’t quite this colorful.

“August, darling!” a woman with bright red lipstick said, coming up to him and grabbing him by the arm. He turned and gave her air kisses on both cheeks, introduced her as Lady Muriel, and instructed me to go off and mingle. I smiled and obediently trotted off, holding up the hemline of my dark red mermaid gown to keep it out of my way.

I stopped and said hello to anyone who looked familiar. I didn’t know most of the A-list celebrities here, but it was impossible to be in the Glimmering music scene for very long without making a few friends. I chatted with Lacey, a girl who’d played drums on my first tour and was now finding some success in her own band, and Adrian, a costume designer whose gowns I’d modeled in my teens for a small Glim magazine. It was great to catch up with people, and even better to do it without August’s influence steering me around the room.

Starling sidled up and bumped my hip with his. “Hey, gorgeous,” he said.

I gave him a big hug. He was careful not to mess up my hair or dress, and I was careful not to wrinkle his purple silk shirt. It was covered in tiny embroidered dragonflies that flittered from one spot on the shirt to another, their silver wings flashing in the golden light of the room. He’d cut his hair close to his head and wore a silver circlet that would have looked silly on most people but suited him.

“How are you doing?” he asked in a low voice.

“Serena is a miracle worker,” I said. I waved my fingers toward my head. “All clear.”

“That is wonderful news,” he said.

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