Through Shattered Glass by David B Silva

Author:David B Silva [Silva, David B]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-04-23T04:30:00+00:00

9.

That wasn't the last of it.

Less than a day later, it happened again.

He had gone into town to see the printer, who had been volunteering both his time and resources to printing posters of the missing Kingston Mills citizens. First, though, Will had needed to stop off to get a haircut, something he had overlooked for nearly six weeks now. He was only a block away from the Four Corners Barber Shop when a new vent opened in the display window of Mary Anne's Department Store across the street.

As Will had learned to do when he first spotted a vent, he stopped and checked the surroundings to see if anyone else had become aware of what was happening. Mrs. Schuster, who sometimes worked as a waitress at the Lakehead Inn, was crossing the middle of the street half-a-block up. Behind her, Terry Bryne and his five-year-old son, Andy, had stopped to window shop at the Book Mark. And there was a car Will didn't recognize, waiting at the stop light at Main and Pine. None of them appeared to be aware of what was going on.

Will stepped to the edge of the sidewalk, his hand wrapped absently around the pole of a street sign which limited parking to no longer than twenty minutes. Only distantly did he become aware of Mrs. Schuster as she reached the other side of the street and started up the sidewalk.

A hay devil—something you rarely saw this time of year in Kingston Mills—swept up several scraps of paper and carried them, swirling into the air in front of the woman. Mrs. Schuster swatted at a candy wrapper near her face, and then...

(just like that)

... it happened.

It happened so fast that at first Will found himself frozen in place, not sure he could even believe what his eyes had seen. What he had seen was this: as Mrs. Schuster went strolling past the vent, something had come out of the blackness and snatched her. Will wanted to believe that it was a man he had seen, but it was like no man he had ever seen before. He was maybe five feet tall, thin, wearing a lightweight jacket over a tee-shirt, both the same color, which was not really a color at all. It was something metallic-like, almost chrome-like, and even more surprising ... it matched the man's pigmentation perfectly. There was one more thing. He was wearing goggles, slightly too big for his face, the frames and lenses shaded in that same metallic hue.

Mrs. Schuster's purse, which had slid off her arm, dropped to the ground with a thud and the surroundings immediately fell silent. Will glanced up the street at Terry Bryne and his son, who were still transfixed by whatever it was on display at the Book Mark. The car at the stop light had turned right and disappeared. No one else had seen what had happened.

Only Will.

He was the only one who could see the vents, the only one who could see

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