I couldn't believe it. I'd been such an idiot. I dove for where I'd last seen Alice, the darkness swallowing everything. I crashed into someone, heard her grunt in protest, knew it was her, carried her to the ground.

"Fee, stop!" She struggled. "Get off me!"

No way was I letting her up. "Why? Why did you kill them, Alice?"

I can only imagine how ridiculous I looked, crouching over the young woman, her glasses askew from my tackle, when the lights came back ...