"The orishas spread through a seemingly ordinary awareness, invisible drops of ink in a volume of water [creating] a still higher state of readiness"
"She lay very still, on her back, the sheet forming a cool dark tunnel, and gave her body explicit permission to relax."
Chapter summaries (may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information):
Chapter 37. FREERUNNERS
Walking to Union Station, Tito passes two of his former freerunner ["practitioners of what they called tricking"] friends from the past in Washington Square "wishing he could go with them, while around him the orishas briefly and very faintly rippled through the air." [269 characters]
Parkour, from which "free running" developed aesthetically, might be of more use to someone in Tito's line of business, with its emphasis on efficient flight from pursuers.
Chapter 38. TUBAL
After shaking off the sudden terror that Bigend was using her for an undisclosed end, Hollis thinks of alternative second careers, failed startups and the virtual monument to Helmut Newton.With the fear receding "sufficient enough to have restored her curiosity" re: Bobby Chombo and the mysterious shipping container, Hollis admits that "one of the scary things about Bigend, she supposed, was that with him you stood an actual chance of finding some things out." She then discovers that Bigend is waiting for her in the lobby as she looks at a photograph of the white truck she saw outside of Bobby's factory. [611 characters]