CHAPTER NINETY-TWO Taborlin the Great

I woke. I was warm and dry. It was dark.

I heard a familiar voice questioning. Marten’s voice, “It was all him. He did it.”

Questioning.

“I won’t never say, Den. I swear to God I won’t. I don’t want to think of it. Get him to tell you if you want.”

Questioning.

“You’d know if you’d seen. Then you wouldn’t want to know no more. Don’t cross him. I’ve seen him angry. That’s all I’ll say. Don’t cross him.”

Questioning.

“Leave off, Den. He was killing them one by one. Then he went a little crazy. He . . . No. All I’ll say is this. I think he called the lighting down. Like God himself.”

Like Taborlin the Great, I thought. And smiled. And slept.

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