CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
For a moment, Kevin just stood there, paralyzed by the grief he felt. He could feel tears starting to roll down his cheeks. They’d taken over his mom. They’d controlled her, like they’d controlled so many other people, but this was different, because it was his mom, not someone else. He felt angry, and sad, and guilty, all at once. He’d done this. He’d told them where to find the rock. He’d—
“Kevin, run!” Luna said, jerking him back from his mom.
He managed to jump back out of his mother’s grip, but she lurched forward after the two of them, breathing out the vapor that might convert them.
More figures came from the buildings all around, pouring from them in a way that said they’d been waiting for Kevin and Luna to arrive just so that they could do it. Some of them l
