- Lonny
- hesitated,
- trembling.
- "Y-you
- mean
- it's
- just
- trying
- to
- scare
- us?"Handlebar
- tweaked
- his
- nose.
- "That's
- right."The
- fire
- returned
- to
- the
- young
- man's
- eyes—almost.
- He
- looked
- around
- the
- shattered
- dock,
- at
- the
- riddled
- corpse
- and
- the
- oily,
- bloody
- water,
- at
- the
- spitting
- power
- lines
- and
- the
- dead
- lights,
- the
- peeling
- boardwalk
- on
- the
- shore.He
- shook
- his
- head.
- "No,
- it's
- not.
- It—it
- doesn't
- pretend,
- like
- you.
- It's
- gonna
- kill
- us,
- that's
- all."
- He
- stepped
- closer.
- "Can’t
- you
- see
- that?
- You
- posing
- hillbilly?
- The
- spill's
- given
- it
- a—a
- lean
- season.
- It's
- sick,
- and
- it's
- hungry,
- and
- …"He
- glanced
- at
- the
- corpse.
- "And
- we
- probably
- just
- killed
- its mate."
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