Red Moon: A Novel by Benjamin Percy

Author:Benjamin Percy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Fiction / Thrillers, Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Adult
ISBN: 9781455501687
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2013-05-07T08:00:00+00:00

Every hour, from eight a.m. until ten p.m., a shuttle—colored gray and purple, the school’s colors—leaves the union and drives the ten minutes to Missoula. The university is isolated, and though it makes an effort, with its markets, coffee shops, bowling alley, bookstore, and bar—the shuttles are almost always full. There are three drop points: the mall, the Safeway, and downtown.

Claire heads downtown—not for the bars or the restaurants, like most of the other heavily perfumed and cologned students that pack the seats around her—but for Café Diablo, a red-walled coffee shop with ironwork chandeliers and black cracked-leather chains. She comes for the free Wi-Fi. All incoming and outgoing messages on campus are monitored, Miriam warned her, so she should never attempt to contact her except from a remote server. Claire created a special email address for this express purpose. Not gmail. Miriam didn’t trust the way they scanned their messages for direct advertising. They used Yahoo instead. [email protected] was her address. When Claire wrote it down on a piece of paper, Miriam rolled her eyes and asked if she might consider changing her username to drama.queen.

They have exchanged only a few messages since the school year began. They do not use names. They do not speak in specifics. “Things are good,” Claire wrote when she first arrived on campus, her hands hovering over the keyboard, so uncertain as to what she could and could not say. “I made it here fine and the location is prettier than I imagined.” Miriam demanded that Claire not make any reference to William Archer or her classes or anything that could pinpoint her identity, in case their accounts should be compromised. She was told, too, not to use her debit card when at the coffee shop—cash only—so that no one could coordinate her presence with this email filtering through that particular Internet port. Claire told her she was being paranoid. “Maybe,” Miriam said. “But people are looking for us. We’re invisible until we give them something to see.”

She was here yesterday. She has been here every day since receiving the first DVD. She hurries her green tea to a chair with a round-topped side table and splits open her laptop and taps her feet hurriedly against the floor and glances around at the few people reading newspapers and novels and chatting over a glass of wine or mug of cappuccino. She calls up her browser and logs in to Yahoo and discovers her inbox empty except for a message from Patrick. “Yesterday I saw a woman with hair the color of honey. She had her back turned to me. Thought it was you. Nearly called out your name. Were your ears warm? Thinking of you.”

What might have made her smile any other time makes her frown now. Nothing from Miriam. Four days and still no response to her four emails.

Claire punches out another message. “Another video arrived today. You in the park. On a run. It’s the little man. He’s alive. PLEASE RESPOND

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