He coughed again. Then, "No, uggs discount leave me. I have to do this."
     She looked up at him, and shook her head. "You're crazy," she said. "You're dying up there. Or you'll be crippled, if you aren't already."
     "Maybe," he said. "But I'm alive."
     "Yes," she said, after a moment. "I guess you are."
     "You told me," he said. "In the graveyard."
     "It seems like such a long time ago, puppy," she said. Then she said, "I feel better, here. It doesn't cheap uggs online hurt as much. You know what I mean? But I'm so dry."
     The wind let up, and he could smell her now: a stink of rotten meat and sickness and decay, pervasive and unpleasant.
     "I lost my job," she said. "It was a night job, but they said people had complained. I told them I was sick, and they said they didn't care. I'm so thirsty."
     "The women," he ugg boots on sale told her. "They have water. The house."
     "Puppy..." she sounded scared.
     "Tell them...tell them I said to give you water..."
     The white face stared up at him. "I should go," she told him. Then she hacked, and made a face, and spat a mass of something white onto the grass. It broke up when it hit the ground, and wriggled away.
     It was almost impossible to breathe. His chest felt cheap uggs online heavy, and his head was swaying.
     "Stay" he said, in a breath that was almost a whisper, unsure whether or not she could hear him. "Please don't go." He started to cough. "Stay the night."
     "I'll stop awhile," she said. And then, like a mother to a child, she said, "Nothing's gonna hurt you when I'm here. You know that?"
     Shadow coughed once more. He closed his eyes-only for ugg boots discount outlet a moment, he thought, but when he opened them again the moon had set and he was alone.
     A crashing and a pounding in his head, beyond the pain of migraine, beyond all pain. Everything dissolved into tiny butterflies which circled him like a multicolored dust storm and then evaporated into the night.