It started human and became something else halfway through, something deeper and crowded, as if several voices had tried to crawl out of him at once and gotten stuck behind his teeth. Black veins burst across his throat, racing up his jaw and down into the collar of his scrubs. His eyes flooded dark from the edges inward until the whites disappeared completely.
Daddy dropped him instantly.
The doctor fell to his knees, clawing at his own mouth.
His shadow moved wrong.
The sun was behind us, weak but there, and still his shadow stretched forward, long and hungry, peeling itself from the ground like a living thing. It slid up his body, wrapped around his neck, and forced its way between his lips.
I couldn't stop the gasp of horror from slipping out of my mouth and Liam’s arm locked acro
