Chapter 7
In a rush of a few seconds, everything he’d been forced to learn and everything Todd had been telling him for the past day came together in his head. Nick fumbled with one of the duffels attached to Todd’s back. Bags of salt were in one of Nick’s duffels, but there were iron spikes in Todd’s. He got one of the spikes free just as he was flung away from Todd. Nick watched in complete horror as Todd was jerked off his feet and hurled a few yards away, hitting the ground with a sickening, mushy thud.
It was a woman or had been. Now she flickered, her limbs stiff and twitchy as she moved toward them. Nick could see through her. He couldn’t understand how she walked. He only knew she was coming.
“Todd!”Nick shouted as the thing bore down on Todd, screeching the most hideous noise N
