It's too bad, Lenore said. As he adjusted to thestrange twilight gloom, he began to see details he had missed before. He finally caught a glimpse ofFredericks floating face-down a short distance away, but even as he tried to call to him, hisfriend was caught up by the surging waters and pulled beneath the surface. The girl in the stainedshirt who stared back had a round face that seemed too large on her thin neck, frightened wideeyes, and dark, curly hair pulled to one side in a simple knot.
Jeremiah stopped in theuppermost for a rest and a think, listening to the percussive echo of the heartbeats, nowquadrupled and more by the stony walls. He threw me out the car. The soundof a softly crying child was always around the next corner, somewhere in the blackness. Cullen reached down to grab her.
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