And With the Shadow People Be by Dan Newman
Author:Dan Newman [Newman, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781626819511
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2017-06-06T00:00:00+00:00
8
Jessie, 1974
The girl in the rain was a pixie of a thing, and her simple blue dress clung to her body like a badly rushed wallpaper job.
âWhat did you say?â asked Jack. The word she had usedâdeadâinjected vigor into his question. Perhaps more than he intended.
In front of them, the little girl turned onto the track and began to walk. She stopped after a few feet, the Tanya leaf still shedding water in a perfect arc. âCome,â she said plainly. Then she turned and began walking along the muddy track in the direction of the estate house. The darkness seemed entirely unimportant to her.
âHey, wait a minute,â called Jack.
âDad, stop it. Youâre going to scare her.â Jessie tugged at her fatherâs arm. âCome onâletâs go.â
Jessie walked beside the girl, sneaking looks at her it the darkness. âWhatâs your name?â she asked.
âConstance,â she replied.
âIâm Jessie and this is my father, Jack.â
The little girl walked on, seemingly preoccupied. Beneath the Tanya leaf, her head swivelled slowly back and forth, watching the bush line at either side, keeping a slow and regular rhythm, like a lighthouse without a beam.
âWhat are you looking for?â asked Jessie, following the girlâs gaze.
âNuthin,â said Constance.
The three walked on in silence while the rain lightened; it remained steady and consistent, but the ferocity of the earlier downpour was gone. The forest still murmured with the raindrops, and where the trackâs edges met the green mass, small rivers were beginning to carve a thousand tiny ruts into the exposed soil.
Ahead of them, the oval of light cast by Jackâs torch bobbed to and fro. He occasionally flicked it at the bush, at the dark shapes and shadows that wobbled there. They assumed and dissolved forms of every kindâpeople, animals, monsters.
They began to climb a rise in the track, and Jack knew that at the top, the dense jungle would open into ordered fields of nutmeg trees. He found himself eager to get there.
âConstance,â said Jessie. âWhat did you mean back thereâwhat you said about being touchedâand being dead?â
The little girl broke her pace and stopped. She looked at Jessie as if she had asked a question to which the answer was obvious. âTonight be a walkinâ night,â she said. âTonight dem come.â
âI donât understand,â said Jess, mildly alarmed. âWho isâ¦â
âJess, come here,â said her father, barging into the conversation and pulling Jessie to one side. âConstance, is it?â
The little girl looked up at him, nodded, and began walking again. They all followed suit.
âConstance, is there a phone up there at the village?â he asked, pointing up the grade toward the top of the rise.
âNo phone.â
âWhat about at the big house? At the Masterâs house?â
âNo phone.â
Jack muttered words under his breath that would never be heard. âWhat about a radio?â
âSure, sure. Der be a radio.â
âI mean a radio that you can use to talk to another person, you know, a CB radio.â
âYou mean, like a phone?â
âYeah, I guess. Like a phone.â
âNo phone,â said the girl.
Beside him, Jessie laughed once before the blackness gobbled that up, too.
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