"I was there when he started having
one of his fits, you know," George Emory says in an off-handed manner.
He's a big man with age just touching his temples and the weariness of
the last decade has clearly taken it's toll on him. "He was just sitting
there at this little diner in Buzzard's Bay when suddenly he went all
stiff and started mumbling in this weird language. Sounded like birds
chirping at first."
At first?
He
looks out the window and shrugs. "You've heard the stories. How he
would come into town after being out in the wilds for months and
something would just trigger him. First he'd start talking to himself
like he was hearing voices and then that funny talk. What they don't
tell you about in the news reports is the scream."
Scream?
"Worst
thing I've ever heard - like a cross between a woman being murdered and
children laughing. Then his head just dropped backwards and his neck
split." His hand begins to tremble as he fumbles with his phone. The
nurses told me that when he gets like this I'm to let him rest and allow
him to gather his thoughts. They warned me against sending him into
another fit. The silence drags on for half an hour before a sniffle
breaks the tension, "It was the demon coming out. I was sitting next to
the door and when it started climbing out of him I ran. I could hear the
people screaming from inside and that damned thing laughing. I still
hear it late at night."
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