Chapter 34: Proper Recipient

By dark the dead had still not gone anywhere. Jo stood in the clinic doorway and surveyed them filling Waverly Place. "You cannot leave them in the fire lane." Callum kept one hand under the ledger. "I'll move the ones with cars." A root shifted under the pavement. The parked sedan beside him rocked on its suspension. "Book first," Jo said. "Comedy after we're indoors." Sau-lin lifted her side of the ledger. The nearest ghosts turned with it. They moved through windows, polished car doors, and the black screens of abandoned phones. Tam Wing-sang appeared in the clinic glass before Sau-lin reached the curb, his empty sleeve pinned across his chest. Lee Kam-yuk watched from the dark window above the fire extinguisher. Callum stayed close enough to keep Sau-lin solid. His temperature had not recovered from the cellar, and the night air found every wet place on his clothes. Her…