The characters belong to Eoin Colfer, the ballet to Jerome Robbins and Igor Stravinsky.


The After Effects of Osculation
or
Da Mi Basia Mille (Catullus)

Angeline hadn't envisaged Artemis being affected by adolescent angst. But what other explanation was there?

He'd retreated to his room, compulsively playing the same Stravinsky piece over and over. Admittedly, most teenagers didn't obsess to classical music but still… Then there'd been the flight to America: he and Butler left in the Lear with virtually no warning: not on business, she'd discovered, but to see NYCB. Artemis and ballet?

She'd hoped it would cheer him up, but he came back as depressed as before. He'd snapped her head off when she asked if he'd enjoyed 'Le Baiser de la Fée'.


First Romeo and Juliet and now this - perhaps he should stick to Grand Opera. (NYCB are the initials for New York City Ballet, blame the hundred word rule for the abbreviation.)