Chapter 22

“Happy to meet you. My name is Tetra. It wasn’t always, but you know, new times, new identities. Not that I’m hiding an interesting or notorious past, just an ordinary, but completely gone, one. I don’t really know who I am now. What do you keep? What do you take with you on a journey to a destination you don’t know, and never planned on going to anyhow? These?” He held up a handful of drugs. “Or even better, these.” In his other hand, he held two squirt guns. “They’re full of bug spray,” he said with a half-baked smile. “You’ll want to watch out for fleas and ticks as well.”

Finn walked closer. “I saw a guy burying people. He said he’d move into their house and then bury them.”

“He’s not necessarily waiting until they are dead,” Tetra said quietly. “So watch out for him. It’s no wonder we’re not all crazy now. Did you hear bells? Is that the cathedral? Or am I crazy now, too?”