Plot Summary

I though it would be helpful to give you a plot summary since I'm feeding you random parts of the story. Comments about the plot are welcome too.

       Plot Summary

Aurelio’s Story

Character: Aurelio is of the mirror spider family, which has an abdomen that looks like a rainbow glitter ball. The spider has the ability to expand and contract its abdomen sothat the reflection is magnified.

• Found in the forest by King Bonito
• Brought back to castle, care for as treasured pet
• Being in captivity he grows and grows
• Bonito likes to show him off, and Aurelio likes to show off
• Over time aurelio becomes very prideful of his beauty, but he is also getting very large and people become both amazed, repulsed, and scared of him.
• Aurelio becomes resentful, wishing to be admired, but being forced to hide himself.
• While living in the castle he observes a lot of human behavior and learns to be manipulative
• He is finally forced to flee from the castle because his eating habits of larger and larger prey, and his scary size become too repulsive for people
• He also has a strained and antagonistic relationship with Prince Adan, who doesn’t trust him
• Aurelio flees from the castle during Festival La Mercè, concealing himself in the parade of demons
• He finds a lair in an abandoned office that is connected to the abandoned underground
• There he captures a woman who he uses as bait to bring in men that he eats

Cecelia's Story

• Character: Cecelia is a young woman from a rich patriarchal family that considers women to be property --based on middle easter ruling families, but I won’t make this about the middle east.
• Cecelia has been rebellious against her father’s oppressive rules, and she has gotten in sever trouble.
• She has been beaten, held prisoner, mistreated by other women in the family
• Cecilia tries to escape from her family, recording a vlog of why she is trying to run away in case she is captured again.
• She runs away, but is caught a few months later
• She is then betrothed to Adan, but she doesn’t trust that he would be any different
• At their wedding she takes the opportunity at the altar to run away
• She is then “helped” by the old woman, and is taken into Aurelio’s lair
• (The old woman has been promised that she’d be set free if she finds a replacement)
• Cecelia is then manipulated and comes under the control of the spider
• She becomes convinced that she isn’t worth anything, that the spider is her savior
• Over time she is allowed some freedom to leave the lair when Aurelio has brainwashed her
• She goes out and tried to find love on her own, but is also just sleeping around. The spider rewards her for bringing men back, but in a subtle way that she doesn’t see is connected
• Each morning after she brings a man home she find that he has left, but it’s really that the spider has captured the man and he’s taken down into the abandoned subway for his dinner
• Part of Aurelio’s control involves sex with him and Cecelia--I don’t go into gory details, because this won’t be a 50 shade of spider story, but it is about the control that he exerts in her life like what cult leaders do.
• Aurelio somehow is able to lay an egg sack into Cecelia’s skin, which Cecelia thinks is just a zit until it grows and pops open when she’s in the shower scrubbing. Little baby spiders emerge everywhere.
• Cecelia lies to herself about what’s happening to the men, but the truth keeps staring her in the face.
• Cecelia buy some marionettes and she uses these puppets of Charlie Chaplin, a Bishop, and a Bride  to work through her questions of existence, the truth of her situation, etc.
• Eventually she decides that she needs to know the truth, and taking advantage of a cold day which puts Aurelio to sleep she goes into the forbidden chasm, which is the subway.
• There is a storm raging at the time, she discovers the silk wrapped bodies, and escapes back to the surface to discover that there is flooding in the city
• She goes outside into the flood, but she is covered with all sorts of grossness from the body sacks, and people think she is in need of help and injured.

Prince Adan's Story

• Character: Adan is the son of Bonito. Often just referred to as "prince" because I hadn't picked a name for him yet.
• Adan grows up in the castle along side the spider
• At first he likes the spider, but then the spider bites him--Aurelio is jealous of Adan
• He starts to mistrust the spider, and keeps a close eye on him.
• At times he throws rocks at the spider, but for the most part he keeps a silent watch and makes comments to people telling to watch out for him or to be careful
• (I haven’t thought through all of this yet, so more will come)
• When Adan meets Cecelia he is actually excited even though he doesn’t know her yet. And when he meets her he is overcome with nerves and behaves in a way that Cecelia misinterprets as disinterest
• Adan is grief stricken when she runs from the wedding and he keeps searching for her.
• He tracks the clues to the neighborhood where she ended up, and keeps returning there in hopes that he’ll spot her.
• He is there when the flood hits, and is one of the people who is helping the injured.
• Cecelia is brought to him when she has emerged from the subway.
• Cecelia is both afraid and grateful when she sees him. They start by working side by side to help people in the neighborhood. This comraderie helps Cecelia see that Adan values her and isn’t misogynistic.
• They discuss their relationship, and Adan convinces Cecelia that he really does love her.
• Adan is very upset that his old enemy has captured his bride.
• Cecelia, now understanding the truth of her situation, is ready to deal with Aurelio too.
• The two come up with a plan, and go in together to defeat the spider
• They live happily ever after--this is a fairy tale after all.