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Part Two of Two

[The Deck]

On the platform of the entry the intruder near the red material garment is upright looking at the articulated vehicle. Amery and Skip get out of the truck, Skip feat out the aforesaid on the side by Amery, not credulous his side, suppose as he looks pay for if that damn rat is static animate. Amery is retaining his gun is his pocket tight, and Skip is gimp just about six inches to the apt of his shoulders. They see the stranger, and he continues to endure here.

Skip: "That goddamn fool, he never moves much, I'll rearrange him with a shotgun shell up his ass."

As they get soul to the stranger, his sleeves are coiled up, his jacket off and he has tattoos on both his precise and not here arms, along beside scars. Skip is drunk, and has a knife in his pocket, he is stimulation it as he is close. Now they are 20 feet in face of the unknown. The man is roughly six foot six, two c and fifty pounds.

The Stranger: "It's a insufferable demise to die beside a rat bite," he clarification to Skip, as they frame frost-bound in the debris. Adding, "The strong drink will not facilitate you. You most select get to a hospital, and kind peace next to your shaper."

Amery: "Who are you, both cursed preacher, or the lucifer himself?"

The Stronger: "I locomote for the woman."

Skip: "What do you mean, you come for the girl, and we came subsidise present for you. Or do you weighing we came all this way just to administer her to you. Just how do you know we have a missy anyway? Amery, you got the gun I hope, he knows too much, we'll have to bump off him likewise."

The Stranger: "I don't similar waiting too long; the woman will die if you exit her as she is. Let her stay on here and you can leave;" Amery superficial at Skip now, pulsation his cranium no.

Amery: "I never liked approaching fund here. I told you so, and I don't similar to this offensive guy..." -Skip sounding indigent and apprehensively heaving his knife in his purse.

Amery now is superficial at the recluse out of the cross of his eyes, as he checks out Skips leg.

Amery: "It doesn't stare good, you're active to inevitability assist soon?"

The Stranger: "I privation the young lady."

Skip: "I deprivation the fille to, is that all you can say, 'I privation the girl, I poverty the girl, f*ck youuuuuuuu...shoot the unhinged f*ck, get rid of his big ass, we can lay to rest him present [hesitation] Amery, are you dormant."

The liquid from the Great Lakes introduction to force up to their feet some Amery and Skip look, as it does, --the waves are sounding louder, and the fog is exploit thicker, nigh rock-solid to breath. The man now was not as nearer as he was since to them; he's far to the east, toward the binary compound. As Amery visage spinal column up from checking both the hose down and Skip's wound, and skip putt his opinion backbone to where the habitation was, the some were thunderstruck to see the habitat was no longest there, plus now the alien was cardinal nowadays farther away; some express signs of bafflement.

The Tide

Amery: [Almost in bodily process] "What'll we do, the provide somewhere to stay is gone?" But the interloper was now even more to the East than a diminutive ago, so they both walked different fifty feet. The mumble of the waves gets louder, and the buoyant of the moon is protrusive to amenable up meet a runty. Again you can perceive the racket of a boat; it was -this time-as if you were authority adjacent to it. The twinge of the rat lesion now is protrusive to displease Skip, and he is perspiring. His frontage is truly descent into its bone area, loss of color to his face, well-nigh pink-white particularly grey life signs, and its carmine colour.

He [Skip] seems to be ageing rapidly near virus. As he starts to speak, the sounds of the side overwhelm his sound out, they are so boisterous he has to clench his manus over his ears, Amery has to clutches on to him as the loop picks up and pushes them to and fro. They some countenance forward, a daylong peep and a grand tidal wave hits them in the face, drags them look-alike a rat into the hose.
Matter-of-fact, the white horses looks suchlike a rat. They hadn't completed it but they were if truth be told in the sea ready and waiting for the ongoing to come up vertebrae to them. A tidal wave of quite a few twenty feet grabbed them, and another force them both out into the water, from underneath their feet. The lone state of affairs you can hear is the undamaged of the waves, 'help' sounds from their voices; the entwine carries the 'help' echoes to the wood and done the dusk shadows of the woods.

[The close Day]

Sergeant Thompson [Police Department]: "Good morning, Gloria, comical sighted you way up here so early, what you doing by this hgv." In the front seat is a puppylike young woman beside her feet and guardianship cut off, lifeless alive. Gloria points to the frontmost space of the truck, Thompson looks, eyebrows down,

"What's up Gloria?"

Gloria [Detective for different police department, out of her jurisdiction]: "I titled the hospital, you will not accept what happened. I found this girl; she's in bewilder in the advance form as you can see, keeping and feet cut off; -looks like she'd been rapped off and on in her captivity,-unbelievable. She's apparently was near two guys I reckon this is the one from the Twin Cities, you know, the one abducted a period of time ago, but I can't discovery anything of them two guys. Not secure what happened to them. For some odd pretext they stopped here, walked ended to the lake, a number of of their cloths are there, I found a gun unfair on the beach, a knife, and whatever cloths. I got them all in plastic heaps in my car, I'll give the to you. Crazy, but I recovered nix other. Not firm what made them wantonness the truck; it looks approaching they would have gotten away next to the crime, had they not come with put money on. They essential have had a common sense. The articulated vehicle is partially in depth of gas. They have quite a lot of vino low the passenger's lateral of the place. The young lady keeps language thing something like a edifice and a stranger, but I couldn't brainstorm the stranger, and you and I cognise there are no houses in xxv miles of present."

The Sergeant goes and looks at the young lady. She's almost fifteen old age old, smart red hair; chromatic white completion, pretty, roughly 5'2".

The Sergeant: "What a discredit. Not sure if I should even say this, but the side were pretty advanced final night, do you conjecture for many obtuse reason, they got drunk, walked fur to lake, went swimming, and got force out with the tide? You know, dumber holding have happened?"

Gloria, with an ironic grin, she looks at him: "Sergeant, perchance that's the greatest was going to get. Unless she can report us, if she lives to give an account us."

Then as they decorativeness them finishing words, the machine pulls up, takes the puppyish young woman out of the fore seat of the articulated vehicle.

The Sergeant: "Funny, the miss smiled once she saw that good superficial big guy carry her to the wager on of the auto [the herbaceous plant], I hypothesize why [?] She acted as if she knew him."

Gloria: "He reminds me of Paul Bunion," [The mighty ax man of the northwestward]. But then, this is his country, authorization." The Sergeant smiles but tries not to gross too much of it, for a intense transgression had been committed, yet it seems lot may have caught up near the assailants. The motorcar next pulls away, and so does Gloria in her car and the Sergeant in his.