The electric wires kept swinging like jump ropes. I thought maybe one of them would snap. You can’t get electrocuted in a car, on account of the rubber wheels, Mr. Mason told us.I kept expecting to see the White Owl around every corner, perched on a fence post.Ma had to lean over the steering wheel to see anything.What happened to Prester? I asked.The police say he showed up at somebody’s house in the middle of the storm.Whose house?I don’t know. Somebody who lives in Township Nineteen. Way out in the boondooks.Where does the word boondocks come from?I have no clue.Is there a real place called East Gish?Lucas, she said. Will you PLEASE stop asking questions! I’m trying to concentrate on the road.Where’s Randall, though? He and Prester said they was going coyote hunting, not last night but the night before.Lucas! I’m freaking out here!Before she started going to her Don’t Drink meetings, back when she was with Randle, she used to get all weird and dopey, but now she’s nervous or angry all the time.We drove over the causeway in the dark.
