NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER/EPISODE with RICK REYNARD, Continued

April, 2012

NIAGARA FALLS, NY

The haze at ground level was thinner, but whatever was going on in the sky above us was advancing. Lys had come up beside me.

"That cone is rising," I said.

"Glad somebody's happy to see me," she said, sighting down her pistol. 'Ah, Lys,' I thought. 'Even on the Judgment Day.'

A tall, solidly built black SWAT-teamer got within ten feet of the ...