Not really far, but somewhere. You need to talk to your snake. You need to calm your agitation and still your disquiet. Go for a day or two or three."... Where did that come from?" Inside. Maybe Biami. You could go back to the cave. It's not far." No. That doesn't feel right. More southwest." I felt an internal pointer. "Waterfall!" A waterfall?" No! The town of Waterfall. There's a park near there. Do we have a state map here?" Yes. I know where it is in the kitchen drawer along with the Sydney. ” he warned, trailing off. He let the warning hang in the air.She beamed at him and flung her arms around his neck. “Thanks Dad. Matt’ll make sure I get home on time.”He glared at me. I suspected that he intended to even the score. I wasn’t worried. I figured the portrait I was doing would lengthen my lead.“Thank you,” I said and offered him my hand again.He took it warily. “What are you thanking me for?”“Because you listened to me. You clearly don’t like me and don’t like what I represent, but. Instead, the deafening blast took my hearing. I have been deaf ever since. Now, I know what you’re going to say. I should be happy that I have a great life and a wonderful family, and I am. But I can say that ever since the accident, my mother has been getting further and further from me. There were times that she and I were close.. we had fun when I was little. But after the blast.. She grew distant. I guess I’m being cryptic. It hasn’t gotten to an unbearable point in the last 13 years,. "A real haunt." Yep, and that weren't the last time it come around. It attacked two othergals. One had herself an old coon gun. She shot it, right in the heart shesaid. It just laughed. She throwed that rifle at it and ran. She gotaway, too, and when they found that there gun, the barrel was twisted t'allgetout, something she could never o' done herself." What about that other gal?" There weren't no one around t'stop the haunt, and it done t'her just whatit done t'the first." Lemuel paused for.