Chapter 34
The man stood blocking the doorway of the shelter and wouldn’t let them in. He was a round man, round of face and body, but with fine, slender hands and a strangely gaunt face. The door was at the back of the shelter, in a dark alley, with a single light bulb above it.
“You’re too late,” the man said.
“Come on, Harry,” Perry argued. “We were kicked out of our camp. We got nowhere else to go!”
“...t’s ...old,” Grime said.
“Cold? Yes, it’s going to be cold tonight, but maybe you should’ve thought of that earlier. If you bundle up, you’ll be all right.”
“Look, we understand the rules,” Perry said. “But the new guy, Christian here, he ain’t dressed for it; he ain’t used to it.”
The man looked over Perry’s shoulder and saw Terrill for the first time. His eyes widened in sudden
