Part 50 (2/2)
”Annja?”
She turned. David stood in front of her. ”Yeah?”
”You all set?”
”Yeah.”
David grinned. ”Then let's go.”
Annja took a final glimpse at the sink, noting as she did so that there were two cake knives and two pans in among the dishes.
Two knives.
Two cakes.
She frowned, but then walked outside after David.
Chapter 26.
The darkness beyond the glow of the porch lights seemed to spread off in the distance forever, an endless horizon of impenetrable shadow. Annja tried to adjust her breathing so she was more relaxed and hopefully more in tune with her surroundings. At the same time, she switched from trying to focus on everything and allowed her vision to become softer, knowing that at night this was the better way to see in the dark.
”It shouldn't be long now,” David said. He stood right behind Annja. His presence was so close it made her feel uncomfortable. She wished Jenny would see how aggressive he was and how Annja was not encouraging him in the slightest.
She sighed. ”Get away from me, David.”
Joey glanced at her and grinned, but then went back to watching the woods. ”What exactly are we waiting for here, Sheriff?”
”Just keep your voice down and be still. If it hears you, it won't come out of the woods.”
”It?” Jenny said as she approached them. ”You don't actually mean the Sasquatch is going to come here, do you?” Jenny said as she approached them. ”You don't actually mean the Sasquatch is going to come here, do you?”
”I certainly do.”
Annja shook her head. ”There'd better be a good explanation for how you managed to achieve that miracle.”
”Simple. A few months back, I noticed some obscure tracks on the periphery of my property. They weren't like anything I'd ever seen before. Of course, my skills aren't nearly what Joey's are so I couldn't be sure of anything, really.”
Joey frowned. ”Well, you certainly could have asked me.”
David shrugged. ”I guess I wanted this to be my discovery and mine only. I wasn't ready to ask for any help. I just wanted to make sure this was what I thought it was and not some big mistake.”
”So what did you do?” Annja asked.
”I set up small feeding stations around the edge of the woods back there. And then I started sitting out all night long, making notes of when the creature came in and for how long. What it liked to eat, what spooked it, that sort of thing.”
”That's pretty intriguing,” Jenny said. ”Did you think to set up a night-vision camera or some other method of actually capturing this thing on film for the rest of the world to see?”
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