It was hard to ignore them because as the hour stretched on the howling and yipping grew closer. They were getting brave. Maurice hadn't caught a damn thing and decided that it was time for a break. He reeled in his line and dug a couple of sandwiches out of the backpack.

He looked at the sandwiches...then he looked at Heather and her giant freak hands and nearly hurt the roof of his mouth snorting as he imagined her taking bites out of the thing.

"Are you hungry?"