Project Dakota: Rising of the dead
His eyes then fell on Levi, who was standing a few feet behind her, trying to look smaller than he was, his hands shoved deep into the pockets of his borrowed jeans.
“And who do we have here?” Lester asked, his tone not suspicious, but genuinely curious and warm.
“Lester, this is Levi,” Ethel said. “We found him in the city. He’s… he’s going to be staying with us for a while.”
Levi looked up, meeting Lester’s gaze. The defensiveness was there, a default setting, but it was warring with his obvious curiosity about this gentle, bookish man in a world of warriors.
Lester didn’t offer a hand to shake. He simply smiled, his eyes crinkling at the corners, and his gaze fell on Levi’s hair. The boy’
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