Monster: Chapter Twenty-one

3:29 p.m. – 9:49 to Termination

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. —Marcus Aurelius

From across the valley, Nick watched them crawl.

He lost count at twenty-four. White cars, black cars, all of them patrol cars from surrounding communities—their lights blinking as they raced north along Highway 91. He saw two ambulances in th…