C8 EIGHT

Fortune's Fool

DEREK

O, I am fortune's fool!

— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

I BENT DOWN to pick up her shoes, and, when I looked up, she'd disappeared. This had never happened to me before, and I had no idea what to make of the situation. Should I chase her? Give her some space?

She was running around Seattle, barefoot, barely dressed, in the cold, at night, without any way home