Chapter Four
The limousine crawled along the wild winding road through eerie floating grey fog curtains periodically pierced by rays of bright sunlight. It twisted and turned through rocky brown hills swamped with evergreen thickets, tall strange trees with ghostly streamers of grey-green leaves and hanging strips of mottled silver brown bark, all splashed irregularly with baby pink. From time to time, the thick green broke open to expose steep declinations painted by the sky’s blue, dropping past tiny houses and the elaborate buildings of the University of California Berkeley campus to the uneven pool of San Francisco Bay. The fiery sinking sun burst through the haze in occasional glimmers of light on the dark water and the Golden Gate Bridge’s orange tower tops.
Houses hidden on the hi
