Chapter 10Brian stayed awake all night. He paced, he stared out the living room window into the darkness, and he turned on a Godzilla movie that no one was supposed to be awake to see at three in the morning. Actors with strong Japanese accents spoke English words, dubbed in over Japanese dialogue. The loud roar of the monster preceded the movement of its mouth by about three seconds.
After fifteen minutes of halfheartedly listening to prehistoric growling and watching buildings being flattened and insignificantly small humans fleeing with their hands in the air, Brian returned to bed. Barbara asked if he were okay. By the time he mumbled that he was, she had already fallen back to sleep, if she had really been awake. Brian stared at the ceiling and thought about Cathy. He wished he could
