Re: Quicklog: Black Widow/Master
[The flippant comment had special significance to Thomas, but he hid it with disturbing expertise. He had told this world that he did not have a daughter, and he would keep it that way.]
No. This is the witness of which I spoke. [He kept the conversation intentionally formal, and his own speech had a hint of the east in the way he constructed his syllables; all intention. There was no accent in his vowels, though. Certainly no native New York. His Russian was better than his native New Yorker dialect, and he knew it.]
This is Mr. Jeremy Worster.
[The boy in the thick coat didn't move. He had on a heavy knit hat, and his cheekbones and chin were barely visible. The closer she came, the stronger the scent: the scent of rotting flesh.]