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Now, when what are your putting? I got a screen going on here,

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something just because my dog. Something
killed your dog? My dog.

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We're flying through the or over the
trade. I don't know how it did

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it, okay, damn, and
I'm really confused. All as I saw

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was my dog coming over the fence, and they did when you hit the

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ground. I didn't see any car
and all I saw was my dog coming

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over the fence. Damn, Why
what are you're putting? We got someone

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or something crawling around out here?
Did you see what it was? It

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was standing up. I'm out here
looking through the window now and I don't

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see anything. I don't want to
go outside. Jesus, point you bet

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hello, get the body out here? What foot on the out there?

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I thought of a boot nine.
I don't know he see him out there

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yet. I'm looking right out.
I knew that we had the recorders and

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the cameras around, and I could
only hope that they were recording everything.

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At this point, I didn't know
if Henry and I would survive this.

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At least if something happened, the
footage would be there. There wasn't anything

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Henry and I could do if we
came out. We would certainly be killed.

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The big foot was drawn up here
for some reason, and now it

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had sparked a full on territorial war. I wondered how many more bigfoot would

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come up here, and how many
more dog men would come out. We

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were sitting ducks. I looked over
at Henry, and he was sitting with

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his knees bent to his chest and
his arms wrapped around them. He wore

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the same fear on his face that
I had. The knocks grew louder,

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and it sounded like an army of
large men were making their way to our

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location. The ground vibrated with every
step they took. We're not gonna make

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it out here, our remark,
Henry asked aside. We have to think

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positive. I know that's hard to
do surrounded by two very large creatures who

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want to rip each other's throat out, but this is where we are right

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now. If Connie taught me anything
it's that you can't take yourself out of

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a tough spot with a negative mind. It'll only make it worse. The

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fire was going and the shadows were
dancing along the sides of the tent.

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We could see the legs of the
dog man and hoped that it was the

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only one. At that point,
I'd only seen one big foot, but

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the footfalls of the others were not
far behind. The necklace glowed a bright

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purple and began to shake. Henry
quickly threw his pillow over it so it

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wouldn't be seen or heard. We
certainly didn't need any warning that they were

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there. We knew that already if
the necklace could make them go away,

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then we would want to wait until
the rest of them were here, and

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not just one here near us.
Loud shrieks rang out everywhere and echoed off

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the sides of the rocks of the
mountain. Then darkness shrouded the tent,

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with only broken glimpses of wrestling shadows
that we could see because of the glow

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of the fire. Loud thuds and
snarls were right beside the tent, and

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I could only hope that they were
too focused on each other and they weren't

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going to rip the tin open and
pull us out. We made our way

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to the back corner of the tent
and hopes that if one of these huge

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animals fail, it wouldn't crush us. It would undoubtedly be like the weight

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of a small car landing directly on
top of us. If it did just

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then, small drops of blood streaked
across the sides of the tent. This

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was first blood. The big Foot
let out a boisterous yale, and then

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more came thundering beside us. Then
we heard more trees being pushed apart.

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It was more dog men. I
quickly went through what we had for protection

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and found our most valuable asset,
the walkie talkie, and the cavalry was

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just on the other side of it. I leaned over and keeped up the

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mic. John, Connie, come
in, Are you there? I whispered,

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what's up? Mark, John asked
Henry and I are in quite a

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jam, and we need a distraction, a big one. I need you

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guys to be as loud as you
possibly can. I can explain it all

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when we get out of here,
but right now you need to trust me.

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Just be loud. I think I
heard you right, Mark, but

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there's a ton of background noises.
Are you okay? I don't have time

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to explain currently We're fine, but
I don't know for how much longer.

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Please hurry, I said Henry,
and I said as still as possible.

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Why the bodies fell around us.
We could still see the glow of the

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necklace just under the edge of the
pillow. It was at its most vibrant

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when the dog men were nearest us
in the battle. I didn't quite understand

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why they hadn't done anything with the
tent. It was baffling me. Those

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Bigfoot know that we're in here,
and I'm sure the dog men do too.

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It may have something to do with
the necklace as well, Henry said,

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But if I had to take a
wild guess, I would say that

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the Bigfoot are protecting us, whatever
the cause. I was glad that we

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were safe and still in one piece. I can't say how intact my sanity

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currently was. However, we sat
for what seemed like forever, waiting on

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something to happen with John and Connie. I hope that it was them taking

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a while because they were planning something. I just wished they would hurry up.

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Shotgun blast rang out an air Horns
screamed through the trees. With every

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shot that was fired, we could
hear footfalls retreating away from us. Loud

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howls and screams were moving into every
direction. Henry moved the pillow and saw

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that the necklace had stopped glowing,
proving that the dog men were gone,

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but we had no idea what that
meant for the big Foot. Then everything

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seemed to go quiet, except for
the airhorns. I cautiously end zipped the

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tent and peeked out. It looked
like a war zone. I motioned for

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Henry to follow me out, and
we carefully crawled out, looking all around

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us. I had brought a small
table to set up the recording devices,

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and it was broken in half.
Instinctively, I started searching for the recorders.

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I couldn't find them, and I
figured that it would be a lost

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cause to be searching in the dark. A shadow moved in front of us,

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and we froze. Henry looked back
and saw the necklace lying on the

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tent floor, but it hadn't started
glowing. That's a big foot, Henry

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whispered. I couldn't believe that I
was getting ready to do what I was

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about to do, but it only
felt natural. I couldn't see the big

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Foot fully, but I knew he
or she could see me. We don't

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want any trouble, okay, We
just want to get out of here,

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once we get some of our things
we'll go, I said, into the

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darkness. The airhorns did stop,
and once again we felt like we were

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alone. We grabbed the necklace and
our flashlights and left the mess and destruction

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behind. We ran as fast as
our legs would carry us out of there.

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We met John and Connie in the
woodline, and we quickly got into

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the truck and sped out of there. I don't know about y'all, Henry

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said, as we walked in the
door, but I need a beer or

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two, hell, maybe even three. After that, we all sat in

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the kitchen, and Henry and I
were quiet for some time before we started

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talking. We sat there and looked
at each other as we drank our beers,

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not believing what had just happened.
I could almost guarantee that we were

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thinking the same thought, so John
said, as he cleared his throat,

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do either you want to tell us
what happened out there? We still sat

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silent. I know they deserved to
hear about what happened, but mustering up

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the words to recount it had become
more difficult than I thought it would be.

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I choked the rest of my beer
and opened my next one. My

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adrenaline was still pulsing, and I
was waiting for the effects of the alcohol

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to set in, at least some
to calm that. I told you some,

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But the fighting was terrifying. It
just walked into camp and that was

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all it took. I began.
Connie laid her hand on mine. What

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walked into camp? Mark? Was
it a dog man? I shook my

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head, No, bigfoot. Bigfoot
walked into the camp, but it was

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almost as if it were caught off
guard that we were there. We didn't

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feel threatened by it at all.
It didn't mean us any harm. I

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know it knew we were there,
but it didn't mess with us. Then

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the dog man realized it was there
and it was on from then. How

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about the necklace, John asked,
did the necklace glow again? Yeah,

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the necklace glowed and it didn't stop
until you guys started shooting and blasting the

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air horn. That's how we knew
it was safe to come out. Then

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as we were leaving, a big
foot was still there, just in the

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shadows. Mark told it that we
just wanted to leave. After that,

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we tucked heel and ran. Henry
said, I finished my third beer and

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finally felt calm again being around Henry
and that dog man at the same time

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was almost painful. The anger I
felt during the whole ordeal was unprecedented.

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I was beginning to finally feel normal
again. So what about this flash you

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told me about with the necklace?
I didn't quite understand it. Over the

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walkee, Connie said, yeah,
there's that. I told him the whole

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thing. They were just as surprised
as we were. They didn't understand it

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either. Didn't Otis say that an
old medicine man gave it to him.

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Maybe that was something that added to
it. Maybe if he didn't take the

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hint. The final protection was to
zap them out of there, John went

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on. Henry laughed. Mark and
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John, and I'll tell you the
same thing I told him. In essence,

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Otis was too afraid to stay outside
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that. Can't blame him. But
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John and Connie just shook their head. I felt the same. My

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adrenaline had worn off now and I
was exhausted. Henry looked like he would

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fall asleep, sitting straight up in
the chair. John left and we all

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went to bed. Honestly, I
think I was asleep before my head hit

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the pillow. I woke up to
the sunlight pouring into my window, and

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I stumbled to the coffee pot.
I was still tired from last night's events,

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but today was a new day,
and I was honestly thankful to be

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able to see it. I walked
outside and sit on the deck, taking

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in the warm rays of the sun. Connie joined me shortly after. She

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was my motivation in all of this, no matter how this ended, I

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just wanted to be with her.
So are we going to get the rest

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of y'all stuff today? Connie asked, Yeah, we need to. I

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only rented all that, so I
need to see if there's any of it

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that's salvageable for me to take back. Maybe there'll be something on the recording

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devices that will be usable, as
long as they didn't crush it. That

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is, it looked like a war
zone from what we could see when we

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crawled out of the tent, but
I'm sure in the daylight it'll be much

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worse. Connie sipped her coffee and
set her mug down on the table.

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Well, I know this may sound
odd, but I'm interested to see it

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myself. Just to know this took
place, i'llbit frightening. It's interesting.

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We've seen remnants after normal animals that
fought in the woods, but seeing the

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aftermath of these two large creatures has
to be astounding. She wouldn't be saying

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any of that, honestly, if
she had been there, she wouldn't want

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to go out in the woods again. John came over and brought Marie with

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him. She gave me and Henry
both a hug. It was out of

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character for her, but I knew
that John had told her what happened,

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and she was just glad that we
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the woods. I have to get
the stuff that's still up there. That

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other stuff I could care less about. I mean, I don't want to

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junk up our property, but the
devices of the main goal in getting back

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out there today. The other stuff
can be cleaned up later. I was

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dreading it, though, and I
could only hope that they were too tired

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for her Round two. While we
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the camp side and it was worse
than I had thought. The only thing

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that still stood was the tent.
There were small trees and leaf litter laying

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around everywhere, but the tent was
untouched. It was like a tornado had

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came through and turned everything else upside
down. There was dried blood splattered all

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over the ground, and the table
was broken in half. It was a

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toss up about whose blood it was, however, could have been either.

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Connie and I just walked around and
shook our head as we surveyed all the

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damage. I walked around moving the
loose branches looking for the recorders. This

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could have been so much worse,
she said, just look at this place.

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I picked up all the cameras and
stuff and I put them in a

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bag and threw them over my shoulder. Yeah, I know, hone.

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It absolutely could have been. But
something was watching out for us. Bigfoot,

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Henry said, smiling. It was
Bigfoot. I told you, I

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laughed. Henry was such a kook, but he was funny. Well,

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that might be the case, but
I also think that a higher power had

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a hand in it as well.
We walked out of the woods without incident

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and made it back home. I
spread everything out on the table. It

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surprisingly looked to be in good condition. Considering now the question lies was there

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anything good on these devices? I
laid the recorder on the table and we

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all sat around listening to it.
There were a lot of pops and cracks.

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I could only assume that that was
the camp fire dwindling down. Then

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we heard the footsteps coming into camp. Afterwards a growl and a screen,

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then static. The hair raised up
on mine in Henry's arms, and everybody

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at the table was quiet. Connie
stared hard at me, Marie sat with

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their mouth open, and John just
hung his head. I'd be interested to

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see, even though that's just a
small clip before it quits, if Ashton

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has heard any of those noises,
I said, I would go out on

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a limb and think that he had. This can't be the only time there's

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been a territorial battle. Connie reached
over and grabbed the camera. Do you

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think there's something on this, she
said, handing it over to me.

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I turned it on, and I
was thankful when I saw the startup screen

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light up. I pushed play,
but the only thing that could be seen

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was large shadows. We knew that
these shadows were there, though we had

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seen them in real time. Connie
shivered when she all the size of what

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I told her was the bigfoot that
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So you saw this, she asked, Did you see it full on?

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Luckily no, I sighed, I
saw it through the sides of the

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tent in shadow. That's the size
of the one that I saw with my

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boys. You forget over the years
how big these creatures really are. It's

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really enough to make you question reality
and everything that you've been taught. It

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makes you question everything you've experienced from
that point on. Yeah, Marie said,

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monsters really do exist. I shivered
at the sound of that. I

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remembered my dad telling me when I
was a young boy that monsters don't exist.

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Maybe in his world they didn't,
but in my world now they were

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as real as ever, and I
was living with them. Now. We

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just had to figure out what to
do. What's past the second creek,

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Henry, I asked, Not too
much, really, just more land,

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some power lines, and then maybe
a half a mile or so from there

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is Otis's property. Well what used
to be as property? Why do you

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ask? I had been thinking about
this all the while, I just hadn't

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said anything to anybody. I was
trying to piece it all together in my

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mind. That one bigfoot came into
camp, but it knew that Henry and

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I were in the dog Man's territory. Why would the bigfoot go up there

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knowing that we were there. They
didn't want anything to do with the pack

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of dog Man. I pulled out
the papers from the Manila envelope and found

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a map. This was the key. It had everything laid out, with

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all the wood and property lines.
It even showed the two creeks that are

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on our property. If you followed
the second creek we stayed at, you

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run into the power lines and then
you would hit Otis's house. They're following

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the power lines, but they can't
get to them any other way than through

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the dog Man's territory. From what
I've read and heard and what John can

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confirm as well, they follow the
power lines for hunting and communication. So

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that must mean that the night he
came into our camp, he had no

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doubt just come from the power lines. It would have no other reason to

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be up there. Honestly, this
was probably just a regular occurrence for these

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bigfoot, and the only reason the
dog Man spotted it was because we were

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there. It stuck around, like
I had said, because it was curious

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well, there's no question that everything
that we've learned thus far will help us

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in the long run. These dogmen
on the upper part of the property are

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the ones that need to go,
As Henry said, the other ones are

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controlled by the bigfoot on the property
and the fact that he hadn't been here

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to allow them to leave the woodline. So, even when this curse is

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broken and these hell beasts sent back
to where they came from, you guys

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should still be okay with the other
dog man here, John said, But

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we still have to find a way
to help Henry break this. Connie said,

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yeah. Marie chimed in, where
do we stand with that information?

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Can't he just do what he did
before and send them back? Henry side,

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I'm afraid not, little lady.
The only way to undo it is

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by my own undoing. Marie gasped, What does that mean? Does that

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mean you have to die to undo
the curse? We all sat around the

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table, quiet and almost mournful at
what she had just said. We all

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knew what he meant, but he
hadn't been around here to be fully filled

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in on that part. Well,
we can't let that happen. We won't

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let that happen. You're our friend, Marie said, Henry chuckled. I

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appreciate it. I don't want that
to be the end of my story,

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but it would be a crazy,
fantastical way to go. At least Henry

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had a positive attitude about everything.
I can't say that I would if I

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had been in his shoes. I
decided to take some time and poke around

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online to look at ways to break
curses. Most everything I found was people

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trying to sell fake ingredients that would
supposedly break curses, and even if I

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wanted to buy them, the time
they would take to reach us wouldn't help

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us. Anyway. I decided the
next day I would head to the library

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and Henry came along with me.
I figured that would be the best way

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to find out what we needed to
I was apprehensive because he had tweaked the

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spell so much for his sons,
but I thought maybe at least we could

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find a way to break the main
potion and the rest would just fall away.

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Henry and I got to the library
as soon as they opened and started

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searching for anything that had to do
with cryptids and curses. There were thousands

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of books, and unlike any other
library, I had seen before. This

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library had two floors. Surely we
could find something that would help us here,

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even if it weren't exactly what we
were looking for, Maybe it would

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lead us to something that could help. We each gathered stacks of books and

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took them over to the table to
look through them. I was floored at

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everything I was seeing, pages and
pages of folklore, cryptids, curses,

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spells, both fiction and nonfiction alike. Henry was like a kid in a

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candy store, and I can't say
that I blamed him. We poured over

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page after pages for hours, it
seemed. Over that period of time,

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I learned about all kinds of things
I've never heard before. Some of those

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things I wish I could forget.
I walked back over to the shelves to

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put a majority of the books back
that I'd selected, and Henry said at

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the table. While I was there
at the shelf, I found a book

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about dog men, and I took
it back to the table. What do

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you have there, Henry said,
as he glanced up. You know that's

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a fiction book, right, We
need nonfiction. I smirked. No,

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I get it. I know we
do. But from what I've heard,

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though, there's always a touch of
truth in every fiction story you read.

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I'm just covering all my basis,
that's all. Henry just shook his head

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and stuck his nose right back into
the book he was reading. It was

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actually nice reading something that I knew
wasn't real, pertaining to these creatures.

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It helped me to relax, knowing
that I could put the book down and

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I could leave it there. Unfortunately, I had a real dog mantale going

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on at my house. Sadly,
I couldn't just close the book on that

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one and go about my day.
Henry got up and found a few more

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nonfiction titles and brought him back to
the table. How's your search going,

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Henry, I ask, finding anything
useful? Henry raised his head. I

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think so more than I thought we
would. Nothing concrete, though. I

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think I'm going to ask the librarian
if they have any older titles on this

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subject. These all seem to have
more of a modern twist. I need

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something that goes back further, like
something in the archives. I watched him

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stand up from the table and put
the books back, except for the one

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that he was going to the desk
to talk to the librarian about. She

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walked around the desk with a key
in her hand, and he followed behind

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her. They walked to a door
on the off side of the main shelves

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and they went inside after she unlocked
the door. I really hope there's something

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inside that room that we can use. This may be his last chance.

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I decided to move to one of
the more comfortable chairs to wait on Henry

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to return. Not long after,
Henry came out with some dusty old books

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in his hand. There were ragged
in appearance. He had a smile stretched

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across his face, so I could
only assume that he had found what he

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was looking for. She said,
I could take these with me. I'm

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almost positive this is what I needed
the whole time, he said, grinning.

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I couldn't follow him for his excitement, as he said those books could

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be the undoing he was searching for. We went to the front and he

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checked those out, and I checked
out the one that I was reading as

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well. It may be fiction,
but it really had my attention and I

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wanted to see how it ended.
When we got back home, Henry set

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out on the back deck, turning
his pages constantly. He had come in

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once and asked for a notebook and
a pen, and I happily obliged.

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He spent the rest of the afternoon
reading and taking notes voraciously. I have

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to say that once all this was
over with, I was really going to

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miss him being here. He had
turned out to be a really good friend.

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He told Connie and I that he
had been staying with a friend not

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far from our house, but I
don't know for sure that that's true.

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He could have been sleeping on the
streets for all we knew. Wherever he

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was staying, it had to be
close to our property for him to be

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able to walk here every night.
I often wondered how this would have turned

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out. Had we not set up
those trail cams and found Henry sitting out

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there, we would still be running
around in circles doing the same thing to

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solve this on our own, or
worse yet, not hunting, hiking or

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fishing, and possibly even having to
move. But this had turned out to

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be our story, our own adventure. We were all like characters in a

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story someone else was telling. Pieces
of a chess board being moved where we

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needed to be at just the right
time. Pretty ironic, if you ask

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me. I just hope our story
where he has a happy ending, we

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said. At dinner later that night, just the three of us, all

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talking and laughing, we had decided
we were going to table the subject of

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cryptids, even if it was just
for one evening, so we could have

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a normal dinner. It was nice. We all went to bed more relaxed

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than we had been since this whole
thing started. The next morning started early,

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but mentally I felt better than I
had in a long time. Stress

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is hard to carry, and we
had all been carrying it for long enough.

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I sat on the deck and read
my dog Man book and drank my

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coffee. This was the piece that
I needed. Connie stuck her head out

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the door and told me that breakfast
was ready. So I went back in,

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almost eager to be able to go
back outside and finish my book,

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You're Living a dog Man Story,
Mark, Connie chuckled, why are you

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reading that? I had been waiting
for that. I knew that she was

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waiting for just the right moment to
rib me about it. It's like I

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told Henry, Connie, this one
I can put down and walk away from

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any time I want with our story, can't. Henry walked in with his

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books and carried them to the table
on the deck. He began telling us

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about everything that he had read,
and he thought that he had maybe found

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the answer to the curse. That's
great, Connie exclaimed, as he ate.

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He went on to tell us that
he would indeed have to go back

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to the place in the woods where
he performed the first one. He asked

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our permission, because he knew how
Connie felt about that. So what all

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do you have to do for the
reversal? I asked curiously. I don't

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know what all you had to do
the first time, but I would think

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to undo it, you would have
to do something different. He downed the

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rest of his orange juice and said, yeah, it will be different,

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herbs and such. Nothing too big, though apparently to break it it takes

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less than it took to cast it. Strange, but according to this book,

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that's what it says. Connie gathered
all the dishes and took them into

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the sink. Well, whatever you
need, just let us know and we'll

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help you get it. I sat
with Henry on the deck as he went

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through the books again, still taking
notes. He was feverishly writing as fast

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as he was reading. Imired his
tenacity. More so, I admired his

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patience through everything that he had been
through, not just recently, but since

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this whole thing started. Where did
you perform the first ritual again, Henry,

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I asked. He leaned back in
his seat and laid the pen on

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the notebook right there in the clearing
where I was sitting. I'll have to

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go back there to try to reverse
it. I had completely forgotten about that.

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If he were there when he performed
it, that would make sense that

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the dog man I shot was right
there as well, so him reversing it

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right there would hopefully be successful in
making them go away. When do you

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want to do the reversal, Henry, I asked, almost excitedly. I

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would think soon, right, he
laughed, Yeah, as soon as possible.

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It's time that this has taken care
of, one way or the other.

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I know you said you would help
me with anything I need, and

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it turns out that I will need
your help according to this book. Sure,

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Henry, what can I help you
with? I asked? He looked

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at me hesitantly. Your blood.
You don't gotta go home, but you

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can stay. And no, I
don't want to be alone the world out

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that us trying to try that time
everything come right back. Ride baby,

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my joy for me. Try to
stay right now. I'm coming right away.

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Ssssssssssss bout time, bout boot for
pots, things and muss us and

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things and us. I have