CHAPTER 38Mara appeared on the side of the road, facing the front of the manor. Shifting her weight from one foot to the other, she waited, wondering how long or if the miders could find her. She didn’t have to wait long.
They streamed out the two windows of the bedroom, down the face of the large house and onto the front porch roof. The displaced front door and several broken windows on the first floor disgorged thousands more. They merged into an amorphous mass and spilled across the lawn, flooding its way back to the road. The tick-tick-tick reached Mara’s ears, and she felt her skin crawl.
As the leading edge of the miders approached, Mara narrowed her eyes at them as she lifted her arms. They froze, about ten deep. They stopped moving, legs in midextension or midstep. Behind them th
