Chapter 37
By the time Stuart was ready to leave Bend, he had more than twenty followers. He didn’t bother to count them exactly, because he intended to increase their numbers once they were on the road. As darkness fell, his Wilderings descended on a Chevy dealership and took every van they had, one follower per vehicle, and when the vans were gone, the rest of his progeny drove off in biggest SUVs on the lot. In the backs of some of the vehicles were the three car salesmen who’d been on duty, plus a mechanic, all of them dead but uneaten.
They drove down Highway 97. They passed through Sunriver and scooped up everyone on the street, then went on to La Pine, where every fast food worker, gas station attendant, and store clerk they could catch was sucked dry and tossed into the backs of
