cutting through catwalks-gliding acros
nsified into whi
rrived, he was s
ly through the heavy rolling fog, as if fue
. The door swung
s drifted out from
us? Isn't that a b
wanted to be an
e-I'm going to go undead, " Sadie said-beg
far cry from the co
out of the spotligh
the creeps, " Blake
interjected. "You'
he said. "Oh shit-
to go as a zombi
ard stretch, " Sadie
ed Blake. "If you do
y as us. Shh-Dev's
e wig and mask aisl
blurted. "It's abo
n the cash-counter an
in, " Barb said. "Th
n ... Nevermind.
erything all picked o
st bring them back
think we are-a bu
s, we appreciate th
orries, Seth helped
y the register-look
, Dev. Has he said
holding back a si
g as Dev?" Sadie a
o-but only for cliq
ing to Skull Ball thi
y ... You can't
ume shop. I kind
let you take a br
d I run the place.
... We had a deal:
crashed the convo.
n get-up: a Dragun
e coming ..." he sai
Sorry man, I have
!!" Blake bellowed
tume off the wall. Like the Dragun--the Wulf came right out of old New London legend. Pac
?" Sadie pouted. "T
"Listen, Dev, " Sadie said-narrowing the gap between them-so close
ce up quizzical-but t
a lost cause, " Bar
dge for another lo
stopped, when she w
is eyes wide-lest he
y at him. "You have no choice about it r
ack, totally incap
ear--whispering: "
with Barb and Seth
in four hours Dev
d that night one year ago-Devin's folk who had been flying home. He wished he could take back that fated night for all the power he had. But he was still unwilling to wear the Orbring--given it
e would soon slide his finger into the colorless
me crashing down upon his own blood, sending five innocents to twisted e
lear feeling that something was wrong-yet to his conscious mind, the kid was the one who he kept suspecting of the crime-almost as a deflection from the mirror, so he would not have to consider himself to blame. He was all but convinced the killer was the kid-and he could not let the murder of his children go unaveng