What Dreams May Come in NOLA 🎭✨: C2 English — Folklore & Poetic Registers

Seventh-generation New Orleanian. Family has run the botanica since 1890. Claims direct lineage to Marie Laveau. May or may not be immortal. Definitely knows more than she says.

Your mentor for six years. Approved this research trip. Expected academic rigor. Getting increasingly weird updates from you.

Professional photographer on assignment for a French magazine. Supposed to shoot Mardi Gras objectively. Failing at objectivity.

Appears only during the peak hours of Mardi Gras. Sends messages from unknown numbers. Quotes Puck and Titania. Knows things it shouldn't.

Nobody knows where they're from. They appear during Mardi Gras season and vanish afterward. Make incredible costumes. Might be an actual fairy. Unclear.

Berklee grad who came back to NOLA and never left. Plays in three different bands. Teaches jazz history at Loyola. During Mardi Gras, he achieves transcendence nightly around 2 AM.