Chapter 116: Dad
To my left and deeper into the cemetery, thick shadows shifted. I couldn't make out anything except more gloom, but I pivoted my feet in that direction. A steady trickle sounded the closer I drew, something wet and heavy, like falling raindrops. But it wasn't raining.
Thunder shook the ground as if in disagreement, but it was like no thunder I had ever heard before. It didn't start in the sky. It came from below. Kansas did get its fair share of small earthquakes, but this felt stronger, as though the earth itself was rupturing.
I sped my steps.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
It came faster now, louder, like a major storm was breaking, except nothing pelted my skin. Another blast of thunder rumbled the earth, and red lightning forked across the wispy clouds. Red, not white. What the hell was happening?
Ahead, the dark took on a life of its own. On either side of the dull glow of the curving path, I couldn't see. It was as if everything else had dropped away from existence.