“Yeah,” Silvers whispered. They were standing very close to each other. “I know whatcha mean.”
“Leon,” Cherry said very quietly. He stepped from the water and dried himself with his filthy towel. “I’ve been havin some terrible nightmares.” Silvers shrugged sympathetically. “I keep seein that guy,” Cherry said. Silvers dropped his head and did not speak. “I keep thinkin he’ll go away,” Cherry explained. “Then we get to a spot like this and I can feel him out there watchin me.”
Silvers nodded his head in agreement. He was not sure how to respond. “It was either you or him,” he said finally.
“Leon, I’m goina see that guy every night for the rest of my life.”
“It’ll go away, Man.”
“Leon,” Cherry said trying to stress the intensity of the emotion that had gripped him, “he didn’t just die.”
