The Homecoming by Andrew Pyper

Author:Andrew Pyper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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It takes the rest of the day to dig a hole, carry Elias’s body swinging between us like a roll of wet carpet, and drop him in.

For the first hour of shoveling, I blink through the sweat and stop to look around the lodge’s cleared drive, expecting to see the Tall Man step out of the trees. Ezra must be plagued by similar thoughts, as he proposes taking shifts with one of us digging while the other stands watch.

Plunge the spade’s edge down. Separate the soil from the ground. Launch it to the loose pile beside the hole.

Stab, divide, heave. Stab, divide, heave . . .

It dulls the urgency of wondering what we ought to do next. It also quiets my guilt over watching Elias die.

Stab, divide, heave.

When we return inside, Jerry shows us how he’s hammered some of the two-by-fours over the bedroom and kitchen windows, and done the same to reinforce the door next to the pantry. The nails he had to use are too short to make them very secure. And as for the great room’s windows, there’s nothing to be done. Yet he seems as grateful for the tasks he was able to complete as Ezra and I are.

“Just have to keep an eye on it,” Jerry says, as if all of us aren’t doing that already, looking for the monster to step out of Belfountain’s snarled mass of life.

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