Chapter 16
Terrill woke with a start, his internal alarm going off at the very moment the sun dropped behind the mountains.
He’d slept fitfully through the day. Some kids had circled the car in the late afternoon, trying to peer inside the darkly tinted windows, curious at the strange vehicle in their neighborhood. He had had a few tense moments, but they’d gone away and he’d dropped back into a feverish sleep.
His eyes seemed glued shut. His mouth was dry and parched. He was shivering, though it was a warm evening and a blanket covered him. It required dredging up a distant memory from when he had been human to diagnose what was wrong with him.
It was as if he was running a fever…which should have been impossible. Above all, he was feeling pain in his chest. He unbuttoned his shirt an
