Samhain 1 Summary

Kelley hears Puck's words in her head as she watches the merry-go-round in central park. As a storm brews and the merry-go-round spins, the horses on the merry-go-round seem to come alive. In the distance, a rider gallops up on a roan horse. The merry-go-round horses join the roan horse and rider heading out for the faerie war.

Kelley is a 17-year-old understudy for the Hoboken production of Shakespeare's a Midsummer Night's Dream. She has been working as a stage hand, but when she finds out the leading lady has sprained her ankle, she goes into rehearsals for the part of Titania. She stumbles into practice, but when she tries to say her lines, she gets them mixed up and forgets them in front of the director, even though she knows them like the back of her hand. The director, Quentin, firmly instructs...