Moonlight Falls
“Didn’t matter that he’d been badly burned. Because of his sheer size and dead weight, we had to set the body down onto a dolly that George had stored in his basement. From there we wheeled him in through the kitchen and, with entirely too much strain on both our backs, flopped him into the first floor bathtub. After packing him in ice, we then carried Scarlet up to the second floor bath, repeated the process.Having packed them with ice, however, we both knew that their state of preservation (such as it was) would not last. Maybe thirty-six, forty-eight hours at most. Even then we’d have to change the ice two times per day, minimum.By the time we were through, daybreak was in full shine through the usual gray filter.Maybe the day was entirely overcast, but this morning at least, the rain had taken a breather. George was good enough to find me a pair of Levis plus a green-and-black checkered shirt. The jeans and the shirt were a bit snug in the waist and chest, but at least there wasn’t... any blood on them.“Now what?”MoreLess
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