The Once-Dead Girl by Laer Carroll

Author:Laer Carroll [Carroll, Laer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

The downtown came flowing toward her. She lowered to a few hundred feet above the highest buildings. Off to one side blinking lights and her own robotic servant heralded a helicopter. She guessed a police copter because of the hour.

For a time she drifted, the city passing slowly under her. Freeway traffic flowed, busy despite the day and late hour.

It was all very peaceful.

·

She slept well that night.

·

When summer came Bethany had more free time. Her family knew from long experience that she was responsible and trustworthy, her mother only reminding her once to remember to carry pepper spray. They and her friends got used to not seeing her for days at a time and she never gave reasons.

Her parents assumed she was with her friends. Her friends ragged her about her secret boyfriend. She just smiled, sending them to heights of speculation, each more ridiculous than before. They eventually tired of it, deciding disgustedly that she was doing something boring and just trying to seem mysterious. Soon they each went on their various summer camps or trips with their parents.

Bethany had gotten the tango bug bad. It was like that for some people, who endlessly took lessons, went to several dances a week, became teachers even, and had most of their friends within the tango crowd.

Some went to Buenos Aires for the “authentic tango experience.” So Bethany did too.

·

She dropped down out of the clouds on a Thursday a couple of hours before sunset. It was winter going on to spring on the “bottom” side of the planet. There was a cloud front passing away to the east into the Atlantic Ocean.

Below she saw what her guide book said was the widest street in the world.

Nueve de Julio street ran north and south. Early on the city had torn up two entire miles of city blocks and put in fourteen lanes of street separated by a green as wide as a two-lane highway. In the center the streets curved around an oval parklet. In the center of the park was a white obelisk like that in Washington, D. C.

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