37Anthony vomited; water and bile and not much else splashed over Rick and Gabriela’s shoes, and stained the grey rocky ground black.
The three sank down. Gabriela filled Anthony in on what had happened, though Anthony looked more concerned with his protesting stomach.
‘We can’t wait any longer,’ Rick said.
‘What the hell are we going to do? Do you see how many of them there are now?’ Gabriela turned to face the ritual happening at the foot of the altar.
Anthony stared at his open hands and started patting his pockets, searching the ground. ‘Where is it? Where is it?’
The heat of the fire pushed the smell of the Ghouls around the cliff in a billowing fog of green-tinged smoke and vapour. Wind-warped trees and bushes joined the rest of the park in the burning. In the distance, sirens w
