"Eerie, isn't it?" Coop questioned, giving the woman plenty of advance notice of his approach. He had not followed Gwyn in so much as he had followed the trail he and King had left during their nighttime expedition to the graveyard. "Even in the sunlight."
The tell-tale Aussie accent had been bleached by his many years in the States. After ten years at Belle's side, his accent seemed to hold an American twang, a mimic of the rise and fall of Belle's speech and the way she sometimes drew out certain words. It was the most consistent accent he had been exposed to, and so it was little wonder he had picked it up.