Not the pain—he was used to that. But the feeling of waking up. That was something he hadn’t done in a long time.He looked around and discovered he was in the lobby of the DruTech Building. There was blood all around him. When he tried to sit up, he realized the blood was his.“You don’t look so good.”David was staring at him, reflected in a chrome garbage can that had fallen over.It was one of those moments of instant clarity, like a fog lifting. All at once Manny understood.He only saw David when he looked in a mirror.Manny had seen David at Dr. O’Neil’s place. He’d gone there to warn the doctor, to tell him he had to hide. But David had gotten there first. The apartment looked like a slaughterhouse. David had been sitting on the sofa, eating a box of chalk.Manny had tasted chalk, too.He tried to remember prior conversations with David. They all involved a mirror of some kind. Through the vanity mirror in Townsend’s bathroom. In his bed back at DruTech, which faced a dresser with the oversized mirror.
