Saint (2010)
“He jerked up and listened. Silence. The door to the bedroom flew open and Kelly stumbled out. “What was that?”
Then it came again, a fuller sound now. “Elieeeee!”
“Johnny!”
Samuel rolled from the mat and dropped out of the loft, bothering to touch only one rung as he did. Johnny must have awakened early and gone out by himself. Samuel yanked the door open and was through before thinking to let Kelly out first. Never mind, she was on his heels.
Dawn had broken. The small canyon was empty, no sign of Johnny.
His scream came again, echoing through the outer canyon, a furious howl that screeched with such intensity that Samuel felt momentarily frozen by fear for Johnny’s life.
He ran barefoot over the sand, ignoring the rocks that dug into the soles of his feet.
Kelly kept up. “Samuel? What’s—”
“I don’t know.”
Again the piercing scream. He still couldn’t make it out.
He tore around the huge boulder on the west side of the canyon’s mouth and pulled up sharply.
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