"Mickey Zucker Reichert - Shadow Storm" - читать интересную книгу автора (Reichert Mickey Zucker)

Stacy heard Shadow Storm's whisper in her ear. "Stacy Sterner, little
and free: You have no more need of me." Then, all hint of him was gone
except for the tattered comic book still hidden beneath her bed.

Stacy did not look back to see him go.


Red and blue dome lights strobed across the skyscraper's brick and
concrete. Stacy clutched Sean Sterner's hand, sweaty from long contact,
but she would not release it. A round-faced, paunchy officer had been
speaking with them for longer than half an hour. "I still don't understand."
The policeman flicked dark bangs from his eyes. "You caught her?"

"Yes."

"After she fell eleven stories?"

"Yes."

The officer glanced to the chalk outline that denoted Matthew
Draybin's landing and the blood splashed in a wide circle around it. Two
of his companions approached from the crowd of spectators huddled at
the perimeter. "Excuse me a moment, please." He trotted over to meet
them.

Stacy released Stemer's hand to catch him into an embrace. He
clutched her in silence, and the hushed union seemed to Stacy to radiate
love and safety.

The policemen spoke softly beneath the hubbub of the crowd, but Stacy
could hear every word.

"There's a dozen witnesses say the girl and man fell together."

"All of it seemed in slow motion, least the part with the kid. He fell fast
enough."

"This other guy seemed to have plenty of time to get beneath and grab
her out of the air. Why they didn't both get driven ten feet under the
concrete… can't explain it."

"Once heard of a baby-sitter moving a minivan to save an infant."

"Guy once flipped a Volkswagen to save his wife."

The paunchy officer finally added his piece. "Girl says some cartoon
superhero carried her."

"She's hysterical."