The room, or the spirit in it, responded with soft sighs of anticipation. This time she was certain her senses did not deceive her. It was enough to have him like thisShe reached into the jacket pocket. Sealing the bag up, she was about to take it down to the car when she heard the front door open. When she had parceled it up in the bag, it was the weight of a small child, no more. More likely the pauperized body, sucked clean of marrow and every vital fluid, was no longer strong enough to support itself. Perhaps Frank was still finding nutriments to squeeze from the corpse, but she doubted it. When she came back to the room, the deterioration of the lamb was still continuing, though now much slowed. She had expected Frank to be here to help her with this labor, but as he hadn't shown she had no choice but to do it herself. She shrugged a small shrug, and turned back to the door.īundling up the blue suit and the rest of his clothes, she put them in several plastic bags, and then went in search of a larger bag for the remains. Rory would be back anytime after 5:15, depending on how dense the traffic was. It ticked away, indifferent to the apocalypse that had overtaken its owner. She peered down at the luminous watch on the lamb's shriveled arm. That done, she washed the knife, rinsed the sink and returned along the landing without bothering to dry herself or to dress. In the bathroom she stripped off her flower-patterned blouse, and rinsed first her hands, then her speckled arms, and finally her neck. She fell against the wall, looking up to see him wrestling with the door handle, his free hand clamped to his cuts. It seemed his intention was not violence but escape, for he relinquished his hold as soon as he'd pulled away from the door. He put his hand into her hair and took a fistful. As the blood started, she was certain the room flickered, the bricks and mortar trembling to see the spurts that flew from him.
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