Chapter 17
It didn’t take long to figure out that there was a concentration of teenagers falling into a coma at Kimberly’s high school. Thirteen students in the past three months had been hospitalized with no rhyme or reason as to why. Some blamed it on an E-coli outbreak while others said it must be a bad flu, but nobody knew the truth.
Of course, they didn’t, and I didn’t blame them. Who would believe that a giant mhrucki was sucking the souls out of their children? That’s not something science would tell them. It’s the sort of thing you take on faith, and those sorts of things end up in crackpot journals and newspapers that you find in the checkout line at the grocery store.
Then again, I found those types of magazines had the most truth in them. They were the ones that reported t
