Blackwater Val
He pulled a small meal planner notepad from his trench coat, and a pen, with which he began scratching.
“—he killed Michelle, Tom. He abducted my daughter!” Richard rolled to his knees, wheezing, and the Sallow Man blinked owlishly, his eyes huge beneath their hoods of flesh. Something terrible passed over his battered face and the pad fell from his fingers. He shook his too-large head in horror.
“Are you nuts?” came Tommy’s reply. “This is Owen Croom. Don’t you remember him?”
“No. Who?” Richard squeezed his eyes shut, forehead to the ground. “Look, no seeds . . . ” he rasped, nearly laughing. “What did you say?”
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