Night of shades
Afraid of her knowledge, afraid she would expose him to the town, afraid that if she spoke, the dark magic that bound all of them together would unwind.
But he didn’t need to be afraid anymore. He knew what he had to do.
Touhy grabbed her wrists—yes, they were like dry kindling, nothing to it—and bent them back. He heard a terrible popping noise and then her face twisted up into a grimace and she screamed, staggering away from him.
“No, don’t scream,” he said, scanning the room. “We can’t have the neighbors thinking there’s something wrong. Oh, that’s right. There are no neighbors.”
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