This novelette reads very much like it's the origin story for a longer work. It's pacy and zips along, and the use of language is great. I find myself less interested in the supernatural stuff than the everyday characters, though - Kia is certainly more interesting to me than Carlos, and I much prefer the parts of the story where the focus is on her. Although, given the ending, it appears that Kia is going to be confronted with the supernatural a lot more often in the future...