“Then what is that?” Addler asked, sounding rather calm as he pointed up toward the forest.
Everyone turned to look.
Pendley yelped out a startled screech and clutched Costle for dear life while Gwen passed out cold, wilting to the roof of the schoolhouse.
Next to Addler, Xia felt all the blood drain from her face.
“It’s a dark one,” she rasped in horrified awe.
“No…” Heath immediately denied, shaking his head and frowning as he squinted and leaned further out over the roof’s parapet to see better. “It can’t be.”
“By God, it is,” Costle breathed in amazement, his eyes only growing bigger. “I’ll be buggered; that’s a dark one.”
Xia couldn’t seem to look away either. “What do we do?”
Large and black and hunch-backed, it looked like an enormous black blob from here, and it stumbled ar
