Blackwater Val
He told him it meant He Who Lies in Wait, and that’s exactly what he was now.
The large Indian stumbled over something, kicked a dead raccoon out of his path and then continued skulking through the markers and shadows. That was the second dead raccoon he’d run afoul of tonight. Plus he noticed a lot of birds were beginning to drop from above, turning up in the oddest places around Blackwater, with their wings twisted and pointing to the sky. All quite strange, frankly. The ancient Romans had watched the skies and the birds, Salt knew, believing they could interpret signs of things to come from their migrations. Then again, they’d rummaged about the innards of sacrificed animals, too, trying
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