Chapter 9Monday and Tuesday, October 30–31, 2000
Monday morning, October 30, 2000
A mild tremor first woke Gavin a little before three A.M. He got up, straightened up what had fallen over, and then, was wide awake. He paced around the living room, and the whole apartment, from room to room, Gavin re-checked the ash-seals on the windows, made sure the gas filters he’d cleaned two weeks ago were working, straightened up what had fallen over, reviewed his instructions again, and then, after making another circuit of every room in his apartment, looked through the photo album he had kept since Grey’s birth, and finally crawled back in bed and pulled the covers over his head.
He couldn’t stop worrying about Grey. Where was he? Had Grey felt the tremor, was he awake and scared wherever he was
