I short everything out! Blew out the 'BEER' sign in the window, fried the jukebox. I'm inclined to take a trip out the power lines and see if it makes the transformer explode. Naaaa. Save that for dramatic effect.
Still. He's sitting there going through my contacts and calling numbers and now he knows about my sister and the half brother in Memphis. He knows about my son over in Berea. His mama works at the school.
Another thing. I can't get to Ava. She walked right across that puddle. Didn't flinch, her and her height and her hair and her somber ways…
-You regret that you had to kill him?- Somethin' like that. Calls Boyd out for bein' a pussy frettin' like there's not enough for him to think about—like makin' MONEY. And because I am dead and there are no consequences for admitting it, I will give him that he was right. I was wrong.
And fuckin' Quarles.
Fuckin' Quarles don't even have a pulse. I tried. Sat down on his shoulders and pulled his hair. The man never so much as blinked. There wasn't even a breeze.
I can get to Johnny though. And the new man with the mohawk. Heh heh heh.
Funny enough but I get the most energy from the cooler underneath the bar. S'where you're supposed to keep dead bodies, innit?