After all this work to leave Ashton, the girl I loved was now engaged to one of its biggest jerks. Fate has a cruel way of circling around on you.It was that night I discovered that most things you consider evil or wicked are simply lonely, and lacking in social niceties.What they don't tell you, is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops.It was on that night Karl met his destiny.Your mother-in-law was never supposed to marry me. After all, no man can avoid reaching the end of his life. As difficult as it was to reach Spectre, I was fated to get there eventually.But the truth is, I'm not ready to end up anywhere. And if I were to end up here, I'd consider myself lucky. This town is more than any man could ask for.I agreed to spend the afternoon, if only to understand the mystery of how a place could feel so strange, and yet so familiar.What I recalled of Sunday School was that the more difficult something became, the more rewarding it was in the end.The truth is, I was never a reasonable man. Now, there comes a point where a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit that he's made a terrible mistake.Well, Since I had no intention of ever returning to Ashton, this seemed as good a time as any to find out what lay down that old road. People didn't use the old road anymore, and it had developed the reputation of being haunted. There were two roads out of Ashton, a new one which was paved, and an older one that wasn't.The biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.All the same, I preferred to keep my bones unbroken. Armed with the foreknowledge of my own death, I knew the giant couldn't kill me.Dying is the worst thing that ever happened to me. I was never much for being at home, Will.But it could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive. I mean, on one hand, if dying was all you thought about, it could kind of screw you up. For she had one glass eye, which was said to contain mystical powers. yet of all the witches in Alabama, there was one who was the most feared. Witches use those bones to cast spells and curses that make the land infertile.
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