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"Sounds good It won’t be much of a walk back"

Finn rounded the corner The lot wasn’t really that convenient It was small and behind a row of colonial houses that had been altered in the Victorian period so that they were adorned with "gingerbread"

latticework that had been so popular at the tiht seemed eerily silent It had been clear when they’d been driving

Now, a thick fog was rising

Pea soup thick Megan felt as if she were stepping into a swamp as she crawled out of the car

"Woill you look at that? All of a sudden," Finn said

"Hey, it’s New England Like they say, if you don’t like the weather, it will change in a few hours

Unfortunately, it doesn’t change for the better all that often"

"Come here while I can still see you," Finn told her

He walked toward her and she hurried for his outstretched ar you nice and close"

"You can barely see the street la in the right direction"

Megan looked up to the sky Through the haze, she could see the moon Not quite full, but it appeared that it was The full moon this year was projected, aptly, for Halloween

"’By the light of the silvery

"Uht And we’re not even a block away"

"I can see the sign ahead"

Megan was glad She couldn’t explain the terror that seeh her, just like the da co from behind them

It wasn’t the sound of footsteps

It see flew, or floated just above the ground

So like a cold, dark ith a scratchy hu faster

"Hey, what’s the matter?" Finn de"

"Yeah, sorry I just don’t like it out here tonight"

"I’ as if his presencetoward theer could pop up from anywhere"

"I did take soers carry guns And knives"

"I haven’t heard that Salee violent crier would have to be as blinded as we are"

She didn’t think that this particular " more and more real in herRather, he saw better in the fog Darkness was his forte

And his weapons weren’t conventional No knives, no guns

And Finn, for all his deterht hi more quickly each ti to creep That feeling was coainst a cold, dark wind that whispered…

"There’s the sign for Huntington House," Finn said

"Beat you there!" she told hi to kill yourself!" he cried

She didn’t care She ran She heard hi after her A few moments later, she was on the porch