Bear, Elizabeth - Long Cold Day by Bear Elizabeth

Author:Bear, Elizabeth [Bear, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-30T15:43:37+00:00

Tamara asked.

Tony closed his eyes for a second. It was the cold making them sting. "She won't die tonight."

"Is that why you did it, Tony?" Gretchen asked. The girls stepped back, giving him room to open the door.

"Why I did what?"

He heard footsteps coming toward them across the lot, heavy and hurried, and started to turn. The keys rattled in his hand.

"Why you made it be always winter," Tamara said. Tony barely heard her.

He was too busy staring his father in the eye.

"Tony," Christian Whittaker said, and held out a hand. His voice was very calm, level and serious, not the bellowing voice of the old drunk Tony had feared and hated. But his breath reeked of booze, and Tony stepped back, away from his father. Away from the girls who weren't girls.

Whittaker felt it like a punch in the belly. The girls puffed up like they'd show fangs and claws any second now. He pushed forward, though, even as Tony fell back against his car.

"Tony—"

"No," Tony said. He turned to one of the girls. " What did you just say?"

Her eyes caught the light and flashed orange-yellow for an instant. "Is that why you made it be always winter? So you wouldn't have to watch her die? How did you do it, Tony?"

She seemed larger, suddenly, and no longer looked so much like a skinny girl, all angles and no curves.

"Shit," Tony said. His hand jabbed for his pocket, came up clutching something. He looked toward Tamara, who had fallen two more steps back and now settled on her haunches, her spiky jaws dripping slaver. "Shit, that's like a Great Dane or something."

But the light shone through its tangled form. The other one came up beside it, circling wide around Whittaker and Tony, backing them both against the car. thirsty, the first one said as it crouched down, whining, and licked its knotwork paws.

Whittaker and Tony heard it, a thick, hollow echo in their skulls.

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