Blackwater Val
“W-what do we do? Please save her.”
Beulah reached across the table and pressed her hand to his lips. “Shhh, eh?” She paused, then withdrew her fingertips from Richard’s mouth and ran them over the pages one more time, her onyx irises sparkling. She stared into the egg-sized riverbed quartz, took a long steady breath, and at once began talking in random fragments. “So much death. So . . . much. Eye drops. My gold ring. Mustn’t forget . . . ” The spasms hit, contorting her face. “Trapped inside this stinking body, this rotting cage of flesh and old bones far too long. TIME . . . TO . . . GO.”
She tore clear and came to herself at last, slamming the German Bible shut and shoving it away from h
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