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Weaklings, Zil thought Cowards

Just a dozen of the a wheelbarrow loaded with softly clinking bottles, trailing the slooo, all of that

Zil couldn’t make out individual s in the edifice, but he could see approxiined hiannouncements

And now here he was at the head of an arreat cause Perdido Beach for hus he led theGolding and Sheret zone, as agreed with Caine No idea why Caine had only said that they should start at Golding and Sher Sherman toward the water Burn all they could till they reached Ocean Boulevard Then, if they still had any left, they could go along Ocean toward town Not toward thetoward the reement is over," Caine had warned

Nitwits Zil seethed at the ance, his contempt for anyone asn’t a freak like him His time would come, Zil vowed

"We’re here," Zil said But that wasn’t a very historic thing to say And this, inning of the end for the freaks The beginning of Zil being in control

Zil turned to faces he kneere expectant, giddy, excited He could hear it in their whispered conversation

"Tonight we strike a blow for humans," Zil said That was the line Turk had coht we strike a blow for huer afraid

"Death to freaks!" Turk shouted

"Light up!" Hank cried

Lighters and ht, casting eerie shadows on wild eyes and e

Zil took the first of the bottles--Molotov cocktails, Hank said they were called The spark of the lighter caught the gasoline-saturated wick

Zil turned and heaved the bottle toward the closest house

It arced like a

It crashed onto the brick steps and burst Flames spread over several square feet of porch

No one asoline burned blue For a while it see but burn itself out on the porch

But then a wicker rocking chair caught fire

And then the decorative lattice

And suddenly the fla up the pillars that supported the porch roof

A wild cheer went up