I could barely catch my breath as I realized the entire city was still here and clearly full of people and life. There was something off about the way the lights had turned on. I could see into the streets of the city but I couldn’t see any actual people.
Sure, lights were coming on all over the place, but where were the people?
Initially, I thought the lights meant there were people still here in Myrel. But where were they? Why weren’t they coming out of the buildings to see what was going on?
A shudder ran through me when an eerie thought occurred to me.
Were there people at all? Maybe these lights were just responding to my presence like motion-sensored lights that came on when someone walked in front of them.
Had we discovered a dead city that still reacted when someone showed up? For some reason, that creeped me out in a whole different way.
I kept staring up at the lights as they came on, and that was exactly how Abe found me, dragging Jared along behind him.
