Nick struggled to concentrate on the children and his job. The building storm wasn’t helping him or them, and with each thundering crash, each splash of lightning to flash across the sky, he struggled to push his own fears aside to keep the kids calm, but it wasn’t working.
The more he thought about him and Todd in the tunnels earlier that day, the worse his nerves frayed and his mind skittered from one thing to the next. No matter how hard he tried, the images wouldn’t stop flickering across his eyes and through his brain.
Nick knew Todd, knew him well. Todd was a mess and getting messier. That fact was blindingly clear.
The kelbit was behind Todd’s actions somehow. Nick didn’t understand how or why but knew right down to his core the kelbit was at the root of Todd’s odd behavior and w
