rose aurora

"...of course, the legacy of the Gypsy Queen, given to her and always left behind, is that she may never stay in one place. No, she might find, in one town or another, solace and a shelter against the darkness, but must always be gathered up into the currents which are hers alone. They have worked tirelessly to confine, to locate, to solidify, but the Gypsy Queen knows Their system to be only at best a temporary haven against entropy... They can have Maxwell's Demon, they can have their children and leases, their golf courses, magazine subscriptions, their innumerable haunts...Their system, not hers. But then, our Gypsy Queen is still human. Disturbingly, sometimes off-puttingly so. Mistress of currents, she may, at times, bend their course, return to the places she has but lately left, return sometimes to ghosts, to revenants, and sometimes to find that... well, that nothing has changed at all. That the same faces radiate at much the same intensity, that the conversation from which she only just excused herself is, inexplicably, still going on......but only for a moment. It has passed. She resumes her journey. It's the journey itself which claims her, after all... what else does she know?"---J.G. Breuklander