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TRAPPED By Dean R. Koontz 1 ON THE NIGHT THAT IT HAPPENED, A BLIZZARD
SWEPT THE ENTIRE Northeast. Creatures that preferred to venture out only after
sunset were, therefore, doubly cloaked by darkness and the storm. Snow
began to fall at twilight, as Meg Lassiter drove home from the doctor’s office
with Tommy. Powdery flakes sifted out of an iron-gray sky and at first fell
straight down through the cold, still air. By the time she had covered eight
miles, a hard wind had blasted in from the southwest and harried the snow at a
slant through the headlights of the jeep station wagon. Behind her, sitting
sideways on the rear seat to accommodate his cast-encumbered leg, Tommy
sighed. “I’m going to miss a lot of sledding, skiing-ice skating too.”
“It’s early in the season,” Meg said. “You ought to heal up in time to have some fun before spring.” “Yeah, well, maybe.” He had broken his leg two weeks ago, and during the follow-up visit to Dr. Jacklin a short while ago,
they had learned that he’d be in a cast another six weeks. The fracture was
splintered – “minor but complicating comminution” – impacted as well, and it
