Rachel Blake asked. She poured tea into the three cups she had placed on the table. “That must have been an absolutely horrible experience.” Alice indicated the amber lantern sitting in the center of one of the tables. “Not nearly as bad as it would have been if Drake hadn’t realized that the boat’s emergency lantern and a nice big fire muted the effects of the fog’s energy. But I have to tell you, it was the mutant insects that made for a long night.” Everyone at the table, with the exception of Drake, stared at her. “Damn,” Charlotte said. “You’re not kidding, are you?” “No,” Alice said. “It wasn’t a joking matter, believe me.” They were gathered in the café at the back of Shadow Bay Books. It was a motley crew that had come together to figure out how to stop whatever was going on inside the Preserve, Alice thought. The weird thing was that, although she told herself she was part of the group only because she needed the job and because Drake had promised to find Fulton’s killer, she felt oddly comfortable with the others.
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