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By now Nuuy came froine running, driver’s door open wide
Although his ears were still ringing, Nummy could hear Mr Lyss say, "You shoot so precise, you encies, but I won’t hold that against you"
"Frost," the new guy said, "FBI"
"Kill me," Xerox Bose said
"Don’t kill him," Mr Lyss said "He’s one of them but special"
"One of them?" Mr Frost said, alarmed, and backed away a couple of steps "One of theet, like it was a wood-chipper and he was nothing but balsa"
"That’s a Builder," Mr Lyss said "This is a different kind of them He’s a Communitarian He’s bad but not as bad as them bastards, he doesn’t eat people"
A hard shot cracked, and the windshield of one of the dead ainst the parapet and watching through the open crenel, Saot out of the car, waiting to see what they would do, which ht tell him whether they were human or not
One was in a police uniform, which was problematic If the cops were co-opted, then this wouldn’t be a friendly listener inspired to visit by Mason Morrell’s stirring rhetoric He see by the car in the snow, ar a coat or hat
One of the other tas a duh Sa snow
The third was a grizzled old guy in a long coat He fetched a shotgun from the backseat, which didn’t make hih his hair ild and from a distance he looked a little crazy
When the two SUVs burst onto the scene and twelve men bailed out of them, Sammy was pretty sure they had mayhem in mind, but he couldn’t be certain of their alien nature He couldn’t fire down on theot a chance The number of shots required to kill them proved they weren’t huht kill one another the sas did, but he was inclined to think they wouldn’t So ot out of the first car and the shooter who showed up in the Chevy were his kind of people, with real blood in their veins
Nevertheless, he wanted to have a dialogue with theot their attention with a single rifle round through the windshield of one of the dead men’s SUVs, and then he shouted down, "Who are you people?"
When the guy on the roof asked them who they were, Mr Frost shouted that he was froht away took offense
" ‘Who are you people?’ " the oldit sound as if it had been said in a snotty hich it hadn’t " ‘Who are you people?’ You going to let in only fancy people ent to universities where every fool wears a tuxedo and spats, only people drink tea with their da apart worse even than Detroit, and you have your nose in the air? You’re not going to let in some funky old hobo because just maybe he stinks a little--which he da a top hat?"
Nuht that Mr Lyss would wait for an answer to his question, but instead the old man sort of snorted a deep breath that puffed out his chest and lifted hiry voice His face was so hot-red in the parking-lot lights that he ought to have ht over the poor :
"Who we are is the very people who ue ofabout on the air I’m a hobo, this one here beside , and one look at us would tell any fool we’re as huets Go on boy, do your part, tell hiht I a it He don’t uy on the roof, "This creature that looks like Officer Bozeman is one of the two kinds of monsters your town let overrun it He’s not one of the people-eating kind, and anyway he’s broken, he’s no threat to anyone, though he’ll test your sanity if you let him near a piano All this ram won’t allow him to kill hi we need to know to find what nest these sonsofbitches coo in and burn it out That’s e are, and if e are isn’t good enough for you, then you can just get in your Mercedes-Benz and drive yourself straight to Hell"
Nus hurt about a lot of things over the years,to think about
Chapter 54
The see out of that inverted abyss, the houses bright or dark but each as still as a mausoleu winter ht have robbed all di toward other neighborhoods …
As the band and collet and prongs of a ring existed to display the ge his senses perceived in this glittering scene existed to display the jewel of a woman at the center of the intersection Fro the middle of the street, she promised to be extraordinarily beautiful, and when he was still sixty feet from her, he knew that proine Although it ht and diamonded threads of snow, she appeared radiant, luminous from within