Blackwater Val
Gone—bodies, the sinkhole, all of it.
“Christ Jesus.”
A small reddish shape shot out of the shadows like a fireball, an animal of some kind. It flew from its hiding place so fast he nearly missed it before it was across the baseball field and away.
Richard’s vision swam. He blinked his eyes rapidly, refocusing them. Dim lights hovered in the darkness on the other side of the river. Black water mirrored the churning, soot-gray sky above . . . water that would drown without mercy, claiming the living and the dead alike, the currents sucking them down. Take them straight to the river bottom, it would, ramming them against the rocks like so much sunken wreckage.
Bab Populer