“Where?” “This way.” She followed him along the line of the rock wall, happy to leave the bodies and their mysteries behind. The ground underfoot rose slightly. Benjamin stopped at a fissure in the rock wall. “Watch your step,” he said, and he squee...
He didn’t look up immediately, and Coral knew it for a power game. She waited him out. When he looked up, he met her eyes and looked concerned as he said, “I hear your patient had a set-back.” There were no secrets in a community this small—certainl...
came the voice again. Coral tried to bring the face into focus. The man she saw was bigger than the one she had fought, this voice pitched lower, and with no edge of insanity. “You’re not him,” she whispered. “Who?” Trying to...