V--2nd how about that ending, eh?

[Dave Monroe]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> "Presently, sudden and in silence, all illumination in Valletta, houselight and
> streetlight, was extinguished. Profane and Brenda ["whom he'd met yesterday"]
> continued to run through the abruptly absolute night, momentum alone carrying
> them toward the edge of Malta, and the Mediterranean beyond."

I've long wondered waht exactly is happening here.  Or, @ any rate,
what happens next ...