If you wanted to name the face of Midnight, where would you look?\u00c2\u00a0 To the mayor, Archibald Carrington, better known as the Duke, who may or may not have killed a man when he was a professional boxer?\u00c2\u00a0 To the underworld figures, Carlos Vallmitjana perhaps, or the legendary Uncle Knuckles, who is probably not even a real man, or Michael De Luca?\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe just an average person on the street, third or fourth generation Midnighter, who has never known the kiss of sunlight?<\/p>\n
Would you seek out beauty?\u00c2\u00a0 A face appearing on posters and in magazines, in newspaper advertisements and on television?\u00c2\u00a0 If that\u2019s your answer, then the name you seek is Angelica.\u00c2\u00a0 She\u2019s not without her flaws.\u00c2\u00a0 Her cheekbones are too high, her eyes too dark, her lips the stuff of dreams.\u00c2\u00a0 She\u2019s too thin, she doesn\u2019t eat, she doesn\u2019t drink, though perhaps she hits the hard stuff, Scarlet perhaps, during her private times.<\/p>\n
Angelica lives in a big house with all the clothing and jewelry she can possibly imagine.\u00c2\u00a0 When she was fourteen, that was what she wanted.\u00c2\u00a0 When she was sixteen, her modeling dreams crashed around her when she lost sight of the Parisian sky.\u00c2\u00a0 But Midnight embraced her, and presented gifts at her feet.<\/p>\n
Maybe yours is the face of Midnight.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe we should look to the future, to the new arrivals, bone weary from their travels.\u00c2\u00a0 Secrets are easy to shed in Midnight, or bury, or lose, and anyone on the run might make a wrong turn and find a new set of problems to replace the old.\u00c2\u00a0 In a place like Midnight, you can hide forever.\u00c2\u00a0 When you get here, buy yourself a shot of rye, or go for the scotch, give yourself a quiet moment to breathe–just in case it\u2019s your last.<\/p>\n
Or perhaps, in seeking Midnight\u2019s face, we should look to the city\u2019s namesake.\u00c2\u00a0 Some say Carlton Midnight settled this place two or four hundred years ago in search of a final drink.\u00c2\u00a0 If you find his tomb, his face is etched upon it.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe, before coming to the City of Night, he left children behind, children who had children of their own, the last descendant of whom may well be a thief.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe a city like Midnight will call its own children back to it.<\/p>\n
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