When she walked back through the dairy, Brutus was lapping water.
Rhyn gasped and struggled to sit. Kiki's still body lay a few feet from him, the ocean lapping at his brother's feet. The Caribbean night was humid and warm, and the moon large over head.
Her eyes returned to Jonny, who was lapping up what was left of the dead woman's blood.
Could you hear the gulls, the clink of the cubes and the waves lapping the shore?
Aside from the infrequent sound of a passing car on the avenue, only the murmur of unseen waves lapping at the sand broke the stillness.