Chapter 12: ConfrontationGarner lay there, dazed, even after the electric shock had ended. He stared vaguely up at the stars in the night sky, visible only in a band bordered by the silhouettes the trees that lined either side of the street. Then, several dark silhouettes came and stood over him.
He stared up at them confusedly, unable to grasp what was happening. Then he remembered Alonzo, and he was galvanized back to full awareness by a sudden stab of fear. Turning his head, he saw several shadowy figures standing a few feet away, looking down at something lying on the ground—which he decided must be Alonzo.
The sight of Alonzo in that position turned Garner’s confused bewilderment into fiery outrage and a return of both mastery of his body and clarity of mind. He looked up at the fig
