Chapter Seven
Sadie
Was it not a bit of hubris to believe you had the gods on your side and anything you did was right? That is what Emerson Gray seemed to believe.
Daphne
Of course, it was hubris. But you have to remember the times. We didn’t know if the world was going to blow up, or the government was going to be overthrown by angry student radicals. That kind of talk was not unusual in universities and for those like us: a group of fledging writers. As much as Emerson vowed that he was not influenced by the times, he was. It was written in a different form of rebellion and Veronica X made sense.
That night, after I was so meanly thrashed—and was as a result in a sort of awed acceptance—after Emerson and I left the shed and headed back to the porch…I believe I was wearing only my
