Chapter 77

Kurt knew this because at that point he was watching from the riverbank. How he’d gotten there, he had no clue. For a second he thought the whole episode had been an hallucination brought on by too much to drink, until he looked down and saw the sand beneath his feet—literally saw it beneath them. He could see through his feet—and his hand when he held it in front of his face. Thatcrsquo;s when he finally realized he was dead.

George kept swimming until, Kurt thought, he was certain the body wasn’t going to surface. Then he returned to the riverbank, getting out a few feet from where Kurt was standing. The look of exaltation on his face made Kurt’s blood run cold. Or it would, if I still had blood. He figured that wasn’t likely. Any more than that I have a real body at all, now.