C12 TWELVE

A Dream Past the Wit of Man

DEREK

I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

IF I BELIEVED in cosmic retribution, I would have thought the storm my punishment for slipping into my old ways and trying to forget about Rose.

Needless to say, that never works.

"Nothing happened, not really," I told my sleeping brother