Chapter 15October 13th, 2014
Bramson Bay, Oregon
Lockwood had gotten through to the county medics and coroner but it took them a good forty minutes to show up with the sheriff in tow. By then I was itching to do something else, anything else except stand there waiting. I ate some cooling fish and fries. It would have been better hot, but it wasn’t bad as it was.
“What about backup?” I asked Lockwood. “Shouldn’t we bring in some more teams?”
“No,” he said.
“With Burton and Crowley out we’re down to just two teams. And one of our own was killed. Why shouldn’t we call out the cavalry?”
“If we bring in more people we run the risk of turning this into a much bigger conflict.” Lockwood stared out into the night. “If that happened, there’d be no hope for Coventry or reform in how we handle
