Maren moved through the shadowed road, rain pouring relentlessly, soaking her to the bone, her thrills squelching in the pooled water along uneven cobblestones. The alley stretched ahead, narrow and rough, walls near enough that she could feel the damp slipup against her arms as she pressed herself along the edges, a fragile hedge between her and the unseen imminence that lurked in the fog. The girl beside her moved with uncanny perfection, surveying murk, billabongs