Succubus Dreams CHAPTER 26

New Years Eve.Warren, Emerald Citys owner, had thrown a swank party at his house and invited the upstanding staff, along with ab kayoed fifty differents. His house was enormous, and hed spared no expense. Waiters worked the crowd. A bartender made alcohol addictions with spectacular flourish. A DJ spun music in the corner. It was probably the most elaborate party Id been to all year. Every 1 was having a great time.Well, except me, naturally.Maddie and circle were thither. Together. It was strange to see them out as a couple so openly, aft(prenominal) all the time he and I had spent hiding our relationship. But when shed arrived back in Seattle a few days ago, shed made no attempts at secrecy. Everyone at the store had known within 24 hours, and it was still a source of often buzzing and speculation. The general consensus was that they were cute.And, watching them, I supposed that if I werent so intimately involved, Id think they were cute too. Mostly they made me want to g o throw up the caviar Id only when eaten. They stood together with a few other staff across the mode, holding hands. Maddie glowed same a succubus, talking animatedly to Beth about some social function. Seth, dressed up for a change and looking gorgeous, listened with a runty smile though there was something solemn in his eyes. He looked uncomfortable, and I strongly suspect hed been brought here at Maddies urging. I didnt think he was the type whod come and rub their relationship in my face, besides then, Id never public opinion hed break up with me either.Just then, he glanced up to scan the room and met my gaze. By accident or on purpose, I couldnt introduce. We held each others eyes for a moment. His expression grew troubled, wistful. I dont know what mine looked like. A moment later, he turned his attention back to the others. But the small smile was gone.Makes you want to brush your teeth, doesnt it?Doug approached me, holding what I believed to be his fifth rum and co ke. I pointed to it.What, all that sugar youre drinking?He grinned. I mean my sister and Mortensen, as well you know.I gave them one more glance, then turned back to him. Everyone thinks theyre cute.I guess. I cant decide how to feel. He knocked back his drink. I mean, hes sleeping with my sister, right? Im supposed to be, like, outraged and want to defend her honor. Or something. But part of mes view maybe theyll hit it off so well that shell move in with him. And that kind of views mehappy.Ugh. Bad abounding they were dating at all. Moving in together? I couldnt even think that far ahead. Theyd save been an item for a week. I silently counted to five and tried not to say something Id regret.Who can say? I murmured vaguely.Doug tilted his head as he regarded me. Always figured youd be the one going away after him, what with your hero worship and his erotic stories about you. He was referring to a short story of Seths that had appeared in a magazine not too long ago. The kinky h eroine bore an uncanny and completely con incumbent resemblance to me.I could prescribe by his voice and face that Doug was joking. Hed never believed there had been anything between Seth and me. Little did he know how close to home his joke hit.Well, I told him. Looks like your sisters going to be the one in the erotic stories now.Doug paled. Oh my God. I never thought of that. He glanced at his empty glass. I gotta get another one.I watched him go and felt a smile tug at my lips, contempt my resolution to be miserable.And I was definitely doing a adept job at the miserable part. I didnt approach anyone at the party and only spoke a few words to those who tried to convey me in conversation. Id already turned down several men whod tried to fetch me a drink or get me to dance. I just wanted to be alone. rattling, I shouldnt have come.Never thought Id see you alone at an event like this.Id felt his presence behind me before I heard him. Carter, you party crasher. I know you di dnt get an invitation.Hey, I heard this was the place to be.Isnt crashing one of the cardinal deadly holy shit.The angel had stepped in front of me. His chin-length blond hair was washed and brushed, and he wore khakis and a blue polo shirt. The ensemble was utterly casual and also the nicest thing Id ever seen him in.He laughed, knowing what had surprise me. I couldnt enter up like I usually do. Im still underdressed compared to you. I had on a form-fitting satin dress with a collar that went all the way up to my neck. Black. Like my mood.Yeah, I said, but if were measuring comparison to our normal ware, youre the best-dressed person in here.This is a great party, he said, eyeing the room. He had a drink in his hand that I swore he hadnt had a moment ago. You dont look like youre having a very good time.I wasnt ready to talk about that yet, not to him. Averting my eyes, I stared absentmindedly to where Doug was hitting on some woman about twenty years older than he was. The DJs current rime ended, and the guitar notes of a new one kicked up. Sweet Home Alabama.Oh, fuck, I said.What? asked Carter.I hate this song.Really? Ive forever liked it.I sighed. What happened to Yasmine?His mocking humor faded. You know what happened to her. She belongs to Hell now. Im sure theyll make good use of her.But will she do it? I asked. Will she really turn her back on Heaven and fight?They always do. It was exactly what Vincent had said. Once shes spent enough time shunned by other angels and denied the face of the divinewell, shell want to fight against Heaven.Thats stupid. Its like shesI dont know. Like shes being forced to go bad.She made the decision to fall.She did it out of love Youre always telling me that love is the most wonderful thing in the universe.It is. But an angels love must be given to the power above first, then to globe as a whole second. It cant be bestowed on just one person human or nephilim.Thats stupid. I think the nephilim have it right thinki ng all of us are messed up. I pass on my glass to a passing waitress. It had been empty for a while. Hesitantly, I brought up something that was still troubling me, something this song wouldnt let me forget. Carterabout Nyx. Her visionsare they always true?As far as I know. They dont always play out like people think, though. Why do you ask?No reason. Well, I mean, just curious about what she showed me.Ah. Yeah, thats tricky. He frowned. Since she was actually manipulating you, its hard to sayI dont know everything about her. Whatd she show you?Its not impor The music abruptly s tallnessped, and from across the room, I heard someone shouting numbers. Ten ixI looked at a nearby clock. Nearly midnight.EightsevenPeople were getting out noise makers and drinks. Couples were getting close.SixfiveMaddie drew close to Seth. He leaned down toward her, looking nervous. ivthreeI clutched Carters arm. I couldnt watch this. I couldnt watch Seth and Maddie kiss. Get me out of here, I gasped, suddenly having trouble breathing.TwoCarter Get me The world exploded in color around me. refrigerant night air blasted my face. Disoriented, I staggered and felt Carter catch my arm to steady me. We stood on top of a roof, directly facing the quadrangle Needle. Fireworks pause around it in showers of rainbow sparks. The accompanying noise shock me, and I gasped. Farther away, other fireworks sparkled on the horizon.Best view in the city, joked Carter.I stared around, still confused, until I was at last able to triangulate our position. Were on top of the bookstore.He released my arm, and we stood there watching the fireworks for several minutes. We were so close to the Space Needle that I could soon smell the smoke as the wind blew everyplace us. I started to rub my arms, then remembered to shape-shift on a coat.A new year has all sorts of possibilities, Georgina, Carter finally said, eyes still on the show.Not for me. Ive lost all mine. Ive lost Seth. I screwed up.Its not a ll your fault. Relationships are symbiotic. Takes two to make them work, two to make them fall apart. Seths got plenty of blame in this.I shook my head. Nothe things he did. It was my fault.Youre missing the big picture, Daughter of Lilith. Youre forgetting Niphons role. What was he trying to do? demote my life, I said bitterly. He had a part, yeah, but he complicated what Id already messed up.Why? Whyd he do it?Because he hates me.Carter sighed. Youre not getting it.I turned toward him. What do you mean? What more is there to get?Only so much I can tell you. Only so much I can interfere. He fell silent as a particularly showy burst of silver sparkles lit the night sky.The deli conversation with Hugh came back to me. Diddid he really mess something up with my contract? Is it flawed?Thats your sides business. I cant tell you anything about that. He sighed once more. I can tell you that eternity is an awfully long time to keep accruing and carrying around guilt.Why do you care so much ? I demanded. Why do you care so much about what happens to me and Seth?He looked back down at me. I like happy endings. I like helping make them happen.Yeah, well. You kind of fucked this one up.His old, cynical smile returned. You want to go home?I turned toward the Space Needle. I want to finish the show.Okay.Oh, hey. Wait. I reached into my purse and pulled out a cashmere knit hat. I pass on it to him. Merry Christmas. Sorry I didnt wrap it.Carter examined his Secret Santa present, then put it on. Neat.When he did finally work me home, he used the same angelic teleportation that always made me slightly nauseous. Aubrey greeted my entrance, rubbing against my legs as I fumbled for the lights. Beneath the horizontal show up, it sounded like my neighbors were having a party.I kicked my heels off in the middle of the living room floor and walked toward my bedroom, unbuttoning my dress as I went. I let it fall to the floor, happy to be free of the lactating fabric. Opening my cl oset door, I knelt down and began rummaging through it until I unearthed the old shoe box again. attain up to the spot just above my breastbone, I found Seths ring on its chain. I undetermined it and held the ring in one hand for a long time, staring at its smooth, shining surface and winking sapphires. I took out the old worn ring from the box and held it in my other hand. For a while, I just sat there, looking back and forth between the two. They were differentand yet so alike. You were destined for heartache. And are going to repeat that forever. You arent learning. You arent changing.With a sigh, I placed both rings into the box, next to a heavy gold cross. I closed the lid and shoved it all back into the closet.It was over. It was all over. pacify half-naked, I walked back to where Id dropped my purse and found my cell phone. I dialed a number and waited.Hello?Dante? This is Georgina.Who?With a start, I realized Id never actually told him my name. The succubus.Oh. I had a fee ling hed already recognized my voice. laughing(prenominal) New Year.I took a deep breath. Are you free tonight?There was a long, great(predicate) pause. What about the man in the dream? he finally asked. There is no man in the dream.

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The fear of whiz group of people who mistrust another group should never result in suspension of rights of another. erect like the eroding of the rights of Africa n Americans during the time when rise was writing, the suspension of rights of people who look as if they are or might be terrorists in the current world is wrong and should not be tolerated. Ida B. rise up wrote with two purposes in mind one was educational, the other was to publicize the atrocities committed in the New in the south with the hope of eliciting reaction from people who would then help bring an end to Lynch Law and other injustices committed against African Americans. swell wanted to educate those people who were unfamiliar with the New South regarding the violence and double standards far to common in the South. well wrote to tell the facts about lynchings in the South so that people would no longer believe lynching was a response to an egregious crime.She sought to reforge lynching in the public eye so that it was not perceived as an understandable though unpleasant response to heinous acts, but as itself a crime against American values (Wells 27). harmonize to Wells the perception that exclusively white women were pure and uninterested in have African Americans as husbands is untrue, there are galore(postnominal) white women in the Sought who would marry colored men if such(prenominal) an act would not place them at once beyond the pale of society and within the wait of the law (Wells 53).At the same time laws forbade African American men and white women from commingling, Wells points out they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can (Wells 53). Although Wells writing centers on lynching because of alleged rape she curbs an important point when she cautions that a concession of the right to lynch a man for any crime, . . . concedes the right to lynch any person for any crime, . . . (Wells 61). Wells also wanted to call citizens of the North, government officials and people in Great Britain to act to end lynch law.She urged them employ boycott, emigration and the press . . . to stamp out lynch law . . . (Wells 72). Ida B. Wells wrote to three different audiences. To those people living in the New South Wells wrote not so much about horrific events that occurred, but about the justifications they used to prune their behavior. As mentioned above, she wrote of the double standard between the races and of the electric potential danger of expanding lynching to suit the whims and fancies of any mob at any time.To those Americans living outside the South Wells wrote to shock them with the descriptions of the horrid events, to educate them about how African Americans were still being treated condescension the Civil War and despite the Constitutional Amendments guaranteeing rights to African Americans. Wells writes to the people of the North to show them that all is not well in the South and that the advances made in the past were being pushed aside. In her first pamphlet, Southern Horrors, Wells wrote about the existing injustices and ongoing terrorist acts performed against African Americans .To the rest of the world, particularly Great Britain, Wells wrote A Red Record she respectfully submitted this pamphlet to the Nineteenth Century civilization in the Land of the bounteous and the Home of the Brave (Wells title page). This pamphlet recounts the numbers and details of more than four hundred lynchings occurring in the United States against African Americans. Wells hoped to appeal to the sensibilities of British people who were potential investors in the South so they would invest elsewhere the appeal to the white mans pocket has ever been more profound than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. To those in power in the United States Wells wrote Mob Rule in New Orleans to those in power in hopes of their bringing to an end to authorities who allow, and at times encourage mobs to act. Although it is difficult to quantify what the actual affects of Wells writing were, it is clear that during the next century, the groups she wrote for did make great strides towar d establishing equality and eliminating injustices based on race. It is not unreasonable to suggest that Wells writing had a hand in starting this process.Wells writings are certainly among the earliest of Post-reconstruction writing to reintroduce the difficulties of African American abides, but they were not the last. It is likely that her writing influenced and encouraged others to continue the work Wells began. As I read through the accounts of these horrible, disgusting lynchings I felt saddened and depressed. Clearly there were many injustices committed and many were people hurt, imprisoned, or killed.Some of these are particularly gruesome such as Chapter III of A Red Record, Lynching Imbeciles An Arkansas Butchery where Henry Smith was tortured and burnt at the stake (Wells 88-98). According to figures gathered by the NAACP (an organization with Wells as one of the establishment members) there were 3,318 African Americans killed by lynching between 1892 and 1931. Certainl y one cannot dismiss or excuse these egregious acts in any fashion. However I was not particularly surprised or take aback by these events.Perhaps it is because I live in a world where the Jewish Holocaust of population War II is well known, a world where a country, Cambodia, went mad, and slaughtered between 1. 5 and 3 one million million million of 7 million its own citizens. Perhaps it is because I live in a world where the juvenile genocides in Rwanda and Somalia were largely unknown until made into a wide screen blockbuster movie. Perhaps it is because of the 9/11 attacks (coincidentally the number killed on 9/11 and the number of dead American soldiers in Iraq are remarkably similar to the 3300+ listed in the NAACPs figures).For whatever reason, I find myself somewhat inured against these accounts. I am not sure whether this reveals more about me or about the society I live in, but I cannot help but wonder if Ida B. Wells were writing today would there be any impact at all .Perhaps not mores the pity.Works Cited Wells, Ida B. Southern Horrors and Other publications The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900. Ed. with intro Jacqueline Jones Royster. Boston Bedford Books, 1997.

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