Sleeping Beauties
“Clio thought that they would be in Honolulu in April for a short visit. She sent Emma a silver necklace, a hundred years old, in the shape of a snake. It was an open circle without a clasp. Emma would have to force it on like the Bedouin women who wore it before her, fitting her neck between the snake’s silver tongue and its smooth tapering tail.
Emma was wearing the Berber necklace the evening she came across the lawn at Hale Moku, frowning as she tried to make out the face of a woman sitting ...on the lanai with Mabel and Tadashi.
As the woman rose awkwardly to greet Emma, she swayed against the bamboo orchids. “It’s a funny story, really,” Clio said quickly. She reached down to still the trembling orchids, clutching them as if they could, in their frail impartiality, steady her. “I mean odd, not amusing.”
Emma stared at her. Clio’s eyes were swollen and flooded with blood. A suture across her cheek looked as if it would break open if she smiled. Flakes of red pepper seemed to float in the hair at her temple, and Emma realized with a shock that it was not pepper, but dried blood.MoreLess
Emma was wearing the Berber necklace the evening she came across the lawn at Hale Moku, frowning as she tried to make out the face of a woman sitting ...on the lanai with Mabel and Tadashi.
As the woman rose awkwardly to greet Emma, she swayed against the bamboo orchids. “It’s a funny story, really,” Clio said quickly. She reached down to still the trembling orchids, clutching them as if they could, in their frail impartiality, steady her. “I mean odd, not amusing.”
Emma stared at her. Clio’s eyes were swollen and flooded with blood. A suture across her cheek looked as if it would break open if she smiled. Flakes of red pepper seemed to float in the hair at her temple, and Emma realized with a shock that it was not pepper, but dried blood.MoreLess
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