Moses saw an enormous figure hurry around the corner away from them. He got only a brief glimpse, but the man was at least a head taller than Moses, and outweighed him by fifty pounds or more. He was wearing a stained leather apron, and his features, before he turned away, were disturbing. His neck was as thick as his head, and his eyes were too close together. One of his ears seemed to sit higher on his skull than the other, and Moses wondered if that was a trick of the light. “I think we almost met John Junior,” he said.
