Chapter 44Cresson, Pennsylvania, 1958As soon as E.Q. saw the extra headlights in the Magic Castle's parking lot, he floored the accelerator. The Chevy's engine roared, and the car hurtled up the road.
Extra headlights at two in the morning were not a good sign, not when it came to the Magic Castle. Especially not when E.Q.'s father and Mary Anne Filigree were there alone.
Olenka hadn't been feeling well, and E.Q. had driven her home to Cresson. He'd only been gone an hour...but that had been time enough for visitors to show up at the Magic Castle.
It had been time enough for them to do much worse than that, as well.
E.Q. raced the Chevy into the parking lot and slid to a stop on the gravel. The first thing he saw in the headlights of the three pickup trucks pointing at the place wa
