Had that been at Revere Beach? That prescient part of his mind saw her before he knew he was seeing her, and must surely have understood her before he knew he was understanding her why else did he associate such dour, ominous images with her?
But when Shinny came in. He was so preoccupied with not screaming that for a moment he didnt even see what was coming into the driveway, and when he did see it, he believed at first that it must be a mirage. "Miserys eyes, that gorgeously delicate shade of cornflower blue, had fluttered open. Im closer to death than Ive ever been in my life, he thought, because she means it.
Every word she had spoken, every word he had screamed, the squeal of the axe pulling away from the severed bone, the blood on the wall. He would have some of those.
If anyone in his previous life (for so he had come to think of it, without even realizing it) had suggested he could work at such a pace, Paul would have laughed. She brought the pages to him, put them on the board, and then stepped back quickly.