The Reaping Page #3

- That could be your problem.

- How do you mean?

A dam gives pollutants

a place to build up.

Longer they're there,

the more toxic they get.

Is it blood?

You know, I wish I could tell you.

Never seen that before.

- Black's not even on the chart.

- Bad phenolphthalein?

- I hope not. It's the only we've got.

- Get more samples.

We'll overnight to the lab.

I'll get the waders.

Can't take it in any further. Too shallow.

Okay. We'll walk.

You gonna be all right

if I leave you alone?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm loving life right now.

Katherine?

Easy there. You all right?

I'm fine. I just hit my head.

I saw a girl.

- What? Blond?

- Yeah.

Kind of thin?

It's not how I figured

on you two meeting.

That's the girl everyone's worried about?

Loren McConnell.

We're not far from where her brother,

Brody, died.

They live out here?

And that's pretty much

how the rest of the town likes it.

- What's everyone have against these people?

- A single mom letting her kids run wild?

- Doesn't exactly fit the town's

self-image. - Where's the father?

Brody's dad drove his truck

off the causeway.

Loren's father was a traveling preacher.

Really? Covered wagon or a tent?

No, I think it was a Pontiac.

He only stayed around long enough

to leave her mom in a fix.

Folks been looking at her cross-eyed

ever since.

I haven't been out this way in a while.

- Nobody has.

- What did this place used to be?

A haven. About a hundred years ago.

Until three hurricanes in three years

pretty much wiped it off the map.

They buried all their dead

in that mausoleum.

- Then they started over on higher ground.

- Thought you said no one came here.

Katherine?

- Yeah?

- Yeah...

- Where are you?

- I'm close. Be right there.

I know I tend to jump to conclusions

on these things...

- Don't say it.

- Lf this town is thinking plagues...

...they got one closer.

- Don't you think it's early to go biblical?

Seeing I was waist-high in blood,

dodging dead frogs, no.

They died because the pH level

of the water was off the charts.

- We're gonna need to see the body.

- I'll call, see if I can arrange it.

Is there any way

I can overnight these samples?

Sure. We got a post office in town.

I'll point it out on the way to my place.

Your place?

Well, I hope you don't mind...

...but we don't have a motel here,

but I got two extra rooms all ready to go.

- I wasn't sure if you two were...

- No, we're not.

No accounting for taste.

- So that's okay?

- It's fine.

You wanna ride with me?

I can clean off the seat.

Sure.

Hey, Katherine, if you need me to

disappear so you can get acquainted...

...I can find a Stuckey's...

- Get those samples in...

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