New London Masquerade

cutting through catwalks-gliding acros

nsified into whi

rrived, he was s

ly through the heavy rolling fog, as if fue

. The door swung

s drifted out from

us? Isn't that a b

wanted to be an

e-I'm going to go undead, " Sadie said-beg

far cry from the co

out of the spotligh

the creeps, " Blake

interjected. "You'

he said. "Oh shit-

to go as a zombi

ard stretch, " Sadie

ed Blake. "If you do

y as us. Shh-Dev's

e wig and mask aisl

blurted. "It's abo

n the cash-counter an

in, " Barb said. "Th

n ... Nevermind.

erything all picked o

st bring them back

think we are-a bu

s, we appreciate th

orries, Seth helped

y the register-look

, Dev. Has he said

holding back a si

g as Dev?" Sadie a

o-but only for cliq

ing to Skull Ball thi

y ... You can't

ume shop. I kind

let you take a br

d I run the place.

... We had a deal:

crashed the convo.

n get-up: a Dragun

e coming ..." he sai

Sorry man, I have

!!" Blake bellowed

tume off the wall. Like the Dragun--the Wulf came right out of old New London legend. Pac

?" Sadie pouted. "T

"Listen, Dev, " Sadie said-narrowing the gap between them-so close

ce up quizzical-but t

a lost cause, " Bar

dge for another lo

stopped, when she w

is eyes wide-lest he

y at him. "You have no choice about it r

ack, totally incap

ear--whispering: "

with Barb and Seth

in four hours Dev

d that night one year ago-Devin's folk who had been flying home. He wished he could take back that fated night for all the power he had. But he was still unwilling to wear the Orbring--given it

e would soon slide his finger into the colorless

me crashing down upon his own blood, sending five innocents to twisted e

lear feeling that something was wrong-yet to his conscious mind, the kid was the one who he kept suspecting of the crime-almost as a deflection from the mirror, so he would not have to consider himself to blame. He was all but convinced the killer was the kid-and he could not let the murder of his children go unaveng