One entry led to two that led to three until eventually every word written by Marguerite Moreno was witnessed and memorized by Serena. She had come to know this brutally betrayed woman who used the names of those in her literary purges by that of flowers such as Aloe, Peony, Cosmo, Dahlia-the list was endless; but among them, were never any clues that led to the easy identification of who it was she spoke of. Which by all accounts of her style of writing and using such a code-had been the point in the first place. However, it acted as a sense of annoyance for Serena as she had only Marguerite’s thoughts within this frail book to keep her on the trail of her final moments in the public’s eye.
But somewhere between reading between the addiction to ‘pep pills’, endless days taken over in ma
