Blackwater Val
Wasn’t it, Richie boy?
You got that right, Richard thought, gazing up the block at the mural and no longer seeing it. It was Michelle, caught up in the moment, who had laughed.
The night-trolling Sallow Man had toppled over and fallen, perhaps into a pile of broken green Heineken bottles and shards, and lay shrieking in the rain. Richard had involuntarily almost bitten off his own tongue. And Michelle, binoculars still in hand, threw her head back and laughed in the darkness, high and loud. Brayed like a loon in a cage, and he’d jumped, blood already gathering in the corners of his mouth. He snatched the binoculars away from her, clamping one hand over her mouth, but not in time. When Richar
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