Chapter 27
2874 Seabrook
Iscrewed up with Sammy, and the thought of that chased me out into the hail and snow. These sudden storms often happened in Mudport. It was like the planet herself had decided to stone me for how I had treated Sammy. Reddish snow swirled around me, obscuring the abandoned boardwalk while the hail drummed down.
Hunched in my coat, I trudged up the increasingly treacherous boardwalk. The storm would pass soon, then the snow and hail would melt away. Right then I had no choice except to take the beating while I looked for the next likely place for the murderer to seek shelter.
Ahead, through the battering hail and swirling snow, another figure trudged along the boardwalk. He was only a shape, a dark silhouette in the storm, hunched over in his long coat beneath a
