Deke came to where Randy was and for a moment the raft tilted, scaring Randy's heart into a gallop and making LaVerne scream again. She looked at Randy, her eyes telling him he could come back, put his arm around her, it was okay now. So she sat down, arms crossed over her breasts, hands cupping her elbows, shivering. Her lips made a pathetic, loose little smile. "Maybe it'll leave us alone," LaVerne said. His short hair was still dripping a little. His nose flared with pain, he felt blood run warmly down his face, and then he was able to step back, crying out: "Don't look at itÄeke stood thoughtfully, head bent. Randy realized he was going to fall over, fall right into it, he could feel himself tilting out- With the last of his strength he brought his right fist up into his own nose-the gesture of a man stifling a cough, only a little high and a lot hard. It rose and fell with the waves and that changed the colors, made them swirl and blend. It came with an oily, frightening speed, and as it did, Randy saw the colors Rachel had seen-fantastic reds and yellows and blues spiraling across an ebony surface like limp plastic' or dark, lithe Naugahyde. "Did it go under the raft? Is it under us?" He thought he heard a noise for a moment-a rough noise, like a roll of canvas being pulled through a narrow window-but that might have only been nerves. We turned off Route 41, we came up eight miles of back road-" He thought he could see Deke's Camaro, but he wasn't sure. The trees behind it made a dark, bulking horizon line. He looked toward the shore and there was the beach, a ghostly white crescent that seemed to float. It just floated there, not coming any closer, but not going away, either. He looked away instead, back at the dark circle on the water. leave us alone." Deke said, "Maybe pigs will-" "It's moving," Randy said. Randy was not sure it was happening, but he thought maybe it was. A little scared? For the first time tonight, for the first time this month, this year, maybe for the first time in his whole life? Now there was an awesome thought-Deke loses his fear-cherry. "So? A caretaker-" Deke was sounding a little pissed now, a little off-balance. "If it's under there I've got a good chance." "I'm going to swim for it right now," he said.
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