“No, but I saw that.”
“Fine,” Adam said. He felt hopeless in the face of these predictions, as though the future were something set and immutable.
“I need to use the bathroom,” Billy said, and made his way upstairs while Alan moved to a sofa and paged absently through an old edition of Alice in Wonderland whose marbled frontispiece had come detached.
A moment later, Mimi joined him, sitting down next to him, her wings unfolded across the sofa back.
“How big are they going to get, do you think?” she said, arranging them.
“You don’t know?”
“They’re bigger than they’ve ever been. That was good food,” she said. “I think I should go talk to Krishna.”
Adam shook his head. “Whoa.”
“You don’t need to be in between us. Maybe I can get him to back off on you, on your family.”
“Mimi, I don’t even want to discuss it.”