My Elizabeth - Chapter 36

Thanks to Minx, Science and Lutamira for the beta and to Ragpants for being my location scout.  Thx to Amy for the banner.  Thank you for the feedback which helps me to know what to clarify.  You'll find a little clarification in this very chapter.  This really won't go beyond 40 chapters!  

I got the banner to work on LJ!  Happy dance!!!

Chapter 36

On a farm, just outside of Modesto, California, three a.m.

The musty scent of rain filled the air.  Somewhere behind the darkened farmhouse, water sluiced off the roof and onto a sheet of metal with a pling-pling-pling.  On the front porch, a creature sat in a rocking chair.  She remained absolutely still.  If not for her yellow eyes gleaming in the moonlight, she would have appeared as if carved from wood.

Two corpses lay in the doorway, an untidy pile.  Dru hadn’t even needed to ask for an invitation from the pair.  All she’d needed was to give them a pathetic look.  One look at her rain-drenched condition, and they’d stepped across the threshold without a question.  Foolish cattle.  They deserved to be dined on.
 

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