Instead, the napkin fell out of her hands, and she went as still as if she’d been flash frozen, and her gaze fixed on something as distant as a moon of Saturn. Although Sparky didn’t put down his slider, he lowered it from his mouth without taking another bite. He said, “Uh-oh.” I didn’t ask, Uh-oh what? My brain had already downloaded too many weird and scary events for one day. Yeah, I had more storage capacity, but I wasn’t going to solicit additional freaky data. After maybe twenty seconds, Bridget unfroze. Her expression remained grim, but her stare shifted several million miles to her
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