Randy was not sure it was happening, but he thought maybe it was. A little scared? For the first time tonight, for the first time this month, this year, maybe for the first time in his whole life? Now there was an awesome thought-Deke loses his fear-cherry. "So? A caretaker-" Deke was sounding a little pissed now, a little off-balance. LaVerne had tried to move next to Deke, but he pushed her away-gently but firmly enough. After the first ten minutes, Randy could hear the brisk, intermittent clickety-click of his teeth. It was maybe fifty degrees and all three of them were in their underwear. "Let it eat fish." Fifteen minutes passed. We got here and you had to drive around the damn gate, NO TRESPASSING signs every fifty feet-" They're empty, the whole bucking funch of them. He thought he heard a noise for a moment-a rough noise, like a roll of canvas being pulled through a narrow window-but that might have only been nerves. His nose flared with pain, he felt blood run warmly down his face, and then he was able to step back, crying out: "Don't look at it Randy realized he was going to fall over, fall right into it, he could feel himself tilting out- With the last of his strength he brought his right fist up into his own nose-the gesture of a man stifling a cough, only a little high and a lot hard. It rose and fell with the waves and that changed the colors, made them swirl and blend. It came with an oily, frightening speed, and as it did, Randy saw the colors Rachel had seen-fantastic reds and yellows and blues spiraling across an ebony surface like limp plastic' or dark, lithe Naugahyde. "Did it go under?" LaVerne said, and there was something oddly nonchalant about her tone, as if she were trying with all her might to be conversational, but she was screaming, too. For a moment it seemed to be piling up there, thickening, and he had an alarming vision of it piling up enough to run onto the surface of the raft. He saw the thing nuzzling the side of the raft, flattening to a shape like half a pizza. "What's this shit, Pancho?" Randy looked-he looked very carefully. "It's trying to get under the raft," Deke said grimly. She looked at Randy, her eyes telling him he could come back, put his arm around her, it was okay now.ĭon't look right at it, the colors make you loopy" So she sat down, arms crossed over her breasts, hands cupping her elbows, shivering. He thought he could see Deke's Camaro, but he wasn't sure. The trees behind it made a dark, bulking horizon line. He looked toward the shore and there was the beach, a ghostly white crescent that seemed to float. It just floated there, not coming any closer, but not going away, either. ![]() He looked away instead, back at the dark circle on the water. We turned off Route 41, we came up eight miles of back road-" Her lips made a pathetic, loose little smile. "Maybe it'll leave us alone," LaVerne said. He had also succeeded in scaring himself. "Next month, yeah," Randy said, and shut his mouth with a snap. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely."We came, and it came. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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