He raised the bit of jetsam to his face, sniffed, and then dropped it. Not important, then. He glanced her way, saw her looking, and she would have sworn the tips of his ears went red before he turned away. The poor man hated to get caught being inhuman.
He hadn’t been looking at her before, though; she was sure of it. But if his attention had been elsewhere, then who…?
Maybe it was just a stressed brain misfiring, but Kim didn’t think so. She turned a slow circle, squinting through the diffuse light of a cloudy day.
Nothing along the beach, at least not as far as she could see. Nothing inland. But there, in the water…
The waves shifted, and she caught a glimpse of something flaming orange before the steel-gray water hid it again.
“Daniel!” she called. “I saw something!”
He was at he
