Outcast by Adrienne Kress

Author:Adrienne Kress
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction / Paranormal
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2013-05-02T04:00:00+00:00

27.

It felt as if something had been resolved, discovered, revealed. But the idea that maybe our angels weren’t angels actually didn’t help anything. It didn’t reveal why people were being taken. It didn’t help get Chris back. It only changed our perception of what they were.

Still, that small shift in perception made my blood run cold. And then that made me think of another thing.

“Say, Mae,” I asked, “have you ever encountered a…well, a being I guess, kind of dressed in white, but not really, and its head is covered like it has a thin fabric wrapped around it?”

“What’re you saying, child?” Etta Mae still had my hands in hers, and she looked at me with concern.

“Is that a good way to describe it?” I glanced over at Gabe.

“Yeah.” He nodded. “It’s kind of, it’s like a person, and he just stands there, and, yeah, his face is covered. His head is covered in a white sheet kind of. And he sort of glows a bit too. You seen anything like that, Mae?”

Etta Mae shook her head. “Never seen anything like that before. I can’t quite picture what you’re talking about.”

“We could wait until it gets dark. It might show up,” I said.

“It might?”

“Yeah…” I glanced at Gabe who was giving me a hard look. “It sometimes shows up at night.”

“Since when?” asked Gabe.

“Since….a while.” I wasn’t going to let him make me feel guilty for not telling him.

“Riley…”

“It hasn’t hurt me or anything, just stands there.” Don’t get all protective, not right now, Gabe. I turned back to Etta Mae. “It…it’s pretty creepy. I don’t know what it is, but when it’s around I feel so cold, and I know that it could do things.”

“What kind of things?” asked Etta Mae.

“I don’t know. Powerful things. I thought, though, that maybe you might know about it, or maybe it’d appeared here in the swamplands before and it was another one of those town folks being ignorant things.”

“Like I said, Riley, I’ve never seen anything like what you’re saying. But if you want to stay a little longer for the sun to finish setting, that’d be okay by me. I’ve got to get some dinner ready for the grankids and Mr. Clayton, though.”

“Oh well, we don’t want to get in your way,” I said quickly.

“Not in the way at all.”

So Gabe and I hung out for another hour or so and waited for it to get dark. Mr. Clayton and the kids joined us, though the girl in the yellow dress didn’t seem to care much for the food and just sat in the corner quietly playing by herself. Finally the sun set, and Gabe, Etta Mae, and I went out onto the front porch to look.

Of course, now I worried the thing would decide not to show. I also worried a bit how Gabe was going to react to it. He hadn’t seen the creature since that night in the fall. Somehow, though, I knew it would be there.

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