Chapter 3Sam slept at Maire's place for two days. He had awakened the first morning to find Madsen feeding Beatrice a beef bone, then he had drifted back to sleep. Not once did he have the persistent nightmare which often awakened him in the night, soaked in sweat, still lingering in a dream world where he was struggling in vain to close the wounds on Kira's mangled face.
He awakened again later, this time to the smell of smoke and hot wax. Through his sleep-induced stupor he could see Madsen in front of an altar aglow with candles. After Sam mumbled something about a smoke detector, Madsen crawled back into bed next to him then pulled the sheet up over his chest and waited until he drifted off again.
When he finally crawled out of his half-coma the second morning, he stumbled to the kit
