He stayed motionless on his knees for one of those seconds that lasted an eternity. The second shot took him a little higher up the back because he was falling to his knees. The first shot hit him in the middle of his back. Wilkes turned towards them and I went to one knee and sighted down my arms. There were shots from the house, echoing up the hill. I felt the hard edge of his panic and ran faster. I felt Richard running, running towards us. I ran in the dark and couldn't see and didn't need to. I ran as if the ground told me where to go, and the trees opened up like welcoming hands. I ran like I'd run earlier in the day with Richard. They'd know I was coming now, but it couldn't be helped. I unleashed that power inside me and sent it outward, casting like a net to catch a faint, ruffling scent of evil. I had to believe it as I threw myself into the black woods. When he came to, he'd get them into the house and they'd rescue Daniel. I left him with Roxanne and the vampires and Ben. They're going to kill Charlotte to try and find something that isn't even here, you asshole. They'd chosen the top of a hill that had once been meadow, but some time today they'd bush-hogged all the grass and meadow flowers so that the hill was bare and broken under the moonlight. If I get you into the house, the woman will be dead before you can get to her. They're going to kill the man and sacrifice the woman now. There isn't time to rescue them both, Howard said. They'd drawn a circle on the ground with something dark and powdery. He was dressed in the same suit I'd seen him in earlier. Hard to tell in the dark from this distance. Niley had a gun, a semiauto that might hold eighteen bullets if he'd modified the clip. Three more shots hit the bushes where I had been. A bullet hit the tree next to my head, and I rolled back into the underbrush.
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