The Silence at Mystery Bay by D.D. Black EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The moon was bright and clear—four days from full—and the little
sailboat rocked gently in the bay, as though keeping time with the shallow
breathing of the woman.
About a hundred yards away, the shore glowed and almost seemed
alive. Colorful lights flashed from the ground and up through the trees. The
music’s heavy beat pulsed through the cold, crisp air, the electronic trills
and sirens like wisps of colorful smoke racing by.
And the people. Hundreds of them gathered together on the shore of
Mystery Bay, dancing, celebrating, shouting. Some, he thought, stood on
the shore looking out at the little boat. He knew they couldn’t see him. And
so what if they did? He didn’t do it and the world was a sparkling miracle.
And the night. It was as clear and crisp as he felt his mind becoming.
It was an odd juxtaposition. On the shore, all the teeming life of the
world—men and women, people of all shapes and colors, old and young,
some on designer drugs, some sober, some clothed head to toe in fur, some
half naked, all jumping and dancing and spinning and carrying on like his
ancestors at the Dionysia in Ancient Greece. Disco balls had been strung
from trees, Christmas lights lined old wooden fences, plumes of vape
smoke rose from little groups.
And he, sitting quietly on the boat, watching a woman die. He was a
different person yesterday.
The full moon illuminated her bright red hair, curly and long, almost
like the perm his own mother had worn in the eighties. Her hair was an
explosion of fire in the night; no one would question why she’d taken the
stage name Pyronite.
He gave one last glance toward the shore.
Had anyone seen anything? No, he doubted it. Maybe their heads were
pointed in his direction, but at The Rabbit Hole, everyone is in their own
altered world. And even if they’d seen something, they wouldn’t see him.
After all, he was an unstoppable God-king sent on a mission that he was
well skilled to carry out.
He pulled a large, microfiber cloth from his jacket and began moving
methodically, his hands clad in gloves as they swept the cloth over the
surfaces of the small sailboat. Starting at the helm, he wiped down the
wheel. He’d been wearing gloves the entire time, but he knew that more
than a handful of killers had been caught because of the mirror image prints
left from gloves touched with bare fingers while being donned.
His gaze then shifted to the mainsheet. He had used the rope to adjust
the sail’s tension during his brief jaunt from shore. He cleaned every inch,
erasing any trace of his presence. He bent low, attending to the cleats and
making sure to cleanse the raised border around the cockpit, where he had
leaned briefly.
Any confusion he might have had he’d honed to diamond clarity.
His actions were precise, an orchestrated effort to leave the sailboat
more pristine than the waters of the Salish Sea.
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