Whispers of the Devil
A shard of a memory flashes back to me–this person, this thing, grinning at me in the kitchen.
“You,” I hiss.
The thing smiles. It’s a wonder that I ever mistook it for Dalton, or even for a human being, in the first place. In the bright light of day, it looks almost faded. Its ashen face is shadowed in spite of the sun overhead. It looks like a wax figure brought to life, too uncanny to possibly be real.
“Call me Amos,” it insists, its tone dripping with false politeness. “Since we’re so close.”
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