Mara made a point of turning on the local news to see if there were any updates from Mount Tabor Park. She supposed it was conceivable the person she had tracked was not the only one skulking around the woods. For all she knew, there was a whole family of invisible goo-slurping carnivores loose in the park.
While she suffered through the weather teaser, the sports teaser and the too-friendly banter of the anchors, she began to wonder what had happened to the man in the park. Did he just disappear into nothing? Did she kill him? Could she have sent him back to where he came from?
A photograph on the television screen drew her out of her thoughts.
“If you have seen this man, please contact the Portland Police Department,” the anchor said. “Jared Smithers’ family reported him missing two d
