“I don’t know. It’s just…light. I walked around it and you can’t see it from the other side. And I walked up to it and tried to look past it. I think—” his voice wavered just a bit “—I thought, I could hear some sort of noise coming from it. Singing. Crying. Something.” He glanced at Matty and looked away, embarrassed at his own fancifulness.
Matty swallowed nervously. Rob was steady. He’d always been steady. Neither of them were given to fancy. That had been Arthur’s job. He took a step closer and peered at the light. Around it there was a shimmer, almost like a heat haze. It went out a few feet in each direction. About the size of a door or a gate. “A gate,” he said. And looked at Rob.
Rob looked back. “That’s what I thought, when you said.” His voice was calm. “I came to tell you abou
