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twenties. They were all laughing and carrying on. It was obvious to me the new people were drunk. I was sitting across the s treet in an al l -night coffee shop. I couldn't hear everything they were saying, but I caught the words party and orgy and warehouse . Jim and Todd and Kathy were trying to convi nce the two couples to go with t hem, and they must have done a good job because the others go t in their car and followed Jim as he drove away. I had to hurry to catch up with them. Jim headed to the edge of town . He par ked in the deserted lot of a boarded-up warehouse. The ot hers parked beside hi m. They were still laughing and talking out l o ud as they followed Jim and Kathy and Todd inside the warehouse.”
    “ How did they get inside if it was boarded up? ” Angela asked.
    “ Jim prised the boards off the door with a crowbar. ”
    “ Why didn't he pull them off with h is hands if he was so strong?”
    “ I don't think he want ed to demonstrate his strength – yet.”
    “ Those two couples must have been awfully stupid to go into a warehouse that was clearly deserted. Especially if the y thou ght they were going to a party.”
    “ I told y ou how drunk they were ,” Mary said. “ And y ou know how sweet and innocent thos e three could look. They could pose for a picture on American values for a Christi an TV station. Anyway, the po in t is they went inside. I stashed my car down the block and waited outside the warehouse behind a stack of crates for them to come out. They did, about an hour later. At least Jim and Todd and Kat h y came out – not the others.”
    “What happened to them?” Angela asked.
    Mary leaned an inch closer. “ They were killed. Our innocent all-Americans murdered them. ”
    “You saw this?”
    Mary sat back and waved her white-bandaged hand in disgust. “ Of course I didn't see it directly. I told you, I waited outside. But when Jim and Todd and Kathy emerged they were carrying those giant green plastic bags you put garbage in. They each had one thrown over a shoulder. The y threw them in the trunk of Jim 's car and drove off. It ma de me wonder. I walked back to m y car and got a flashlight. I returned to the warehouse and crept inside. At first I didn't see anything. The place was empty, with dust everywhere. I called out, but no one answered. Then I saw this area on the floor. Here all the dust was brushed a wa y.” Mary stopped and shut her eyes. She took a deep breath , then another, but seemed not to let either go . Angela found he rself leaning forward.
    “ What did you see? ” Angela asked.
    Mary opened her eyes. She shook her head. “B l ood.”
    “Blood?”
    “ Blood .” Mary lowered her head to sure at her ban daged hand, perhaps thinking of the blood that was now on her hands. “Most of it had been wiped away , off the concrete floor. They were careful, bu t not careful enough. Th ere was still blood left to see.”
    “ There were no bodies?”
    “ No ,” Mary said.
    “ To rn clothes? Bloody clothes?”
    “ No .” Mary l ooked up weari ly. “ I think our dear classmates t ook the clothes with them in the green garbage bags.”
    “I thought you wer e implying that the bags contained the bodies of the two couples,” Angela sai d.
    “ Hardly. The bags were not tha t big.”
    “Then the bodies — What are you saying, Mar y?”
    Mary met her ey e straight. “They're monsters. What do monsters have for dinner?”
    Angela was appalled . “They didn't eat them, for God’s sake.”
    “I don't think God had anything to do with what they did to those four .”
    “Mary.”
    “ Seven people went in that warehouse, Angie. Only three came out.”
    It was Angela's turn to close her eyes and shake her head. Shake it all ou t of h er head, she wished. These awful images Mary so easily invoked. Super strength, strange appetit es. All this from a girl who had killed two people only twelve hours ago. What was she to believe from such a per son ? Nothing – she