Being a Green Mother
“The Livin’ Sludge completed its engagement in Hawaii and made it safely back across the ocean. Now that Orb knew the Song of Day, she had no fear of the dancing skeletons; indeed, she was not certain they existed any more. She was grateful to Nat for teaching it to her, wanted to thank him, and could not. Oh, if only she had not affronted him by testing him! Yet still she did not see what else she could have done, given the warning of Thanatos and Chronos.
Lou-Mae shook her head. “You had better go to him, Orb,” she said. “We’ve got a few days off now; why don’t we stop at the Llano plain, and you can look for him?”
“I think he would have appeared by this time, if he wanted to,” Orb said sadly.
“He’s a man. He has his foolish pride. He wants you to make the first move. Go out and sing for him, and he’ll hear.”
Orb felt hope. “You think so?”
“I don’t know a lot about men, but Jezebel does, and she makes a lot of sense. She says they think they’re superior.
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