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  The snout looped almost lazily around her straining throat, but she fought her way almost to the front door before the thing held her, feet on the floor, body at an impossible angle, and stilled her frantic screams, quieted her straining lungs and sipped the last of her heartbeats, and let her drop.

  Mrs. Warren stared incredulously at June’s crumpled body and the horrible creature that blinked its lights and shifted its antennae questingly. With a muffled gasp, she sagged, knees and waist and neck, and fell soundlessly to the floor.

  The refrigerator in the kitchen cleared its throat and the Eater turned from June with a choonk and slid away, crossing to the kitchen.

  The Eater retracted its snout and slid back from the silent refrigerator. It lay quietly, its ears shifting from quarter to quarter.

  The thermostat in the dining room clicked and the hot air furnace began to hum. The Eater slid to the wall under the register that was set just below the ceiling. Its snout extended and lifted and narrowed until the end of it slipped through one of the register openings. The furnace hum choked off abruptly and the snout flipped back into sight.

  Then there was quiet, deep and unbroken until the Eater tilted its ears and slid up to Mrs. Warren.

  In such silence, even a pulse was noise.

  There was a sound like a straw in the bottom of a soda glass.

  A stillness was broken by the shrilling of a siren on the main highway four blocks away.

  A choonk and a slither and the metallic bump of runners down the three front steps.

  And a quiet, quiet house on a quiet side street.

  Hush.

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