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station.”
    Judd stood his ground. “I was on the other end of the phone when you killed my friends. I said you wouldn’t get away with it, and you won’t.”
    â€œI should have dealt with you while I had the chance,” Woodruff said. “If it hadn’t been for Goldberg and the people at headquarters, you’d still be locked up.”
    â€œI’m going to give you the chance you never gave my friends,” Judd said. “Walk out of here and leave these people alone.”
    Woodruff shook his head and moved a step toward Judd. “You’re in no position to bargain.”
    Judd held up the shirt. “Abbadon,” the locust said.
    â€œThis is the next judgment from God,” Judd said. “These locusts will sting those who don’t believe and they’ll feel incredible pain. You’ll want to die, but you won’t be able to.”
    Woodruff scoffed and held up his gun. “You can’t scare me with your little animal.”
    â€œYou can’t kill it,” Judd said.
    The elevator doors opened in the hall. Footsteps approached quickly.
    Woodruff leveled the gun at Judd. “Now you’ll see what a mistake you made coming here.”
    Judd opened the shirt, and the locust skittered into the air, disoriented. It looked at Jamal and his family, then spotted Deputy Commander Woodruff. “Abbadon,” it screamed, its teeth dripping venom.
    Woodruff jumped back, terror on his face. The locust darted toward the ceiling. Woodruff shot and missed.
    Judd ran for the front door and locked it. The other officers shouted outside.
    Judd turned and the locust dived for Woodruff. The man fired wildly and missed again, the bullet lodging in a wall. Then the locust was on him, biting his forehead.
    â€œDeputy Commander!” an officer screamed outside the door. “What’s wrong?”
    Woodruff swatted at the locust but it was too late. The venom immediately entered the man’s bloodstream. He thrashed and yelled in pain. His gun rattled to the floor.
    Judd stepped over Jamal and his family and knelt beside Woodruff. The locust flew toward the front door.
    â€œGet it off me!” Woodruff screamed, swatting at the locust that wasn’t there.
    Judd grabbed keys from the man’s belt and quickly unlocked the handcuffs. The officers outside kicked at the door. Lionel opened the window, and a few more locusts flew inside.
    â€œI wouldn’t come in here if I were you,” Jamal shouted. “There is a gang of locusts waiting for you.”
    The pounding stopped. The men yelled for their leader, but he was still thrashing and moaning on the floor. Lionel and Sam helped Jamal’s wife and Nada to their feet. Sam grabbed the gun and stuffed it under the mattress in the next room.
    â€œWe have to hurry,” Judd said to Jamal.
    One by one they climbed onto the fire escape. Judd was the last one out the window. As he crawled outside, the front door splintered. Then came the frightened cries of men who were now face-to-face with evil.

    Vicki and Lenore tried to help Melinda and Janie but nothing worked. The girls were just as miserable as when they were first stung.
    â€œWe have to make them comfortable and leave it at that,” Lenore whispered as she and Vicki left the bedroom.
    The other kids complained about the moaning and crying upstairs. “This is going to get spooky if it keeps up through the night,” Darrion said.
    As evening approached, the kids gathered to eat and talk about what had happened. Everyone had questions about the locusts and what was ahead. Charlie drank in every word. Conrad found an Internet news outlet and turned it up so everyone could hear. The news anchor had locked himself inside the studio to keep the locusts out.
    â€œWe can’t estimate the millions of people who have been stung,” the anchor said, “but reports are flooding in from throughout the world. All modes of