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Speaker 4: Visit. O Lord, we beseech thee dishabitation and creature of Thine,
Speaker 4: and remove far away from him all the snails and
Speaker 4: assaults of the devil. Let thy angels Michael, Raphael and
Speaker 4: Gabriel dwell therein to preserve it in peace and from
Speaker 4: all unclean spirits, And let thy blessing be always upon.
Speaker 5: Us, God, save your soul.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 2: Now where were we?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 6: I think my great grandfather was about to stab a corpse?
Speaker 2: I love story time? Uh are you okay?
Speaker 6: Why do you ask? Is it because I'm finally getting
Speaker 6: a bloody, first hand account of the depravity of.
Speaker 2: My forebears and something like that?
Speaker 6: No, this is It's not fun exactly, but I'm as fascinating.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, I keep reading?
Speaker 6: Where was I?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 6: Here? I watched as he bent low until he was
Speaker 6: right above Nathaniel's prone form. I watched as he whispered
Speaker 6: a quiet prayer over the boy as he slowly brought
Speaker 6: the knife up, clasped the handle between both hands, looked
Speaker 6: up at the blank, white autumn sky in search of
Speaker 6: God's grace, took a deep breath and plunged the knife
Speaker 6: deep into the sadder white boy's chest.
Speaker 2: Jeez, yeah, that is so messed up.
Speaker 6: Huh, keep going, Okay, I grew queasy, and I do
Speaker 6: not believe that I was alone. Noah had gone quite pale.
Speaker 2: And even Father Abbas seemed for a moment to doubt
Speaker 2: his decision.
Speaker 4: Our Father, go art in heaven hall. It would be
Speaker 4: thy name, my kingdom. Come, I will be done on
Speaker 4: earth as it is in heaven. And give us this
Speaker 4: day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses.
Speaker 2: He prayed feverishly, hissuffusing words to fortify his resolve, and
Speaker 2: then with a final word amen, he began to feverishly
Speaker 2: saw it the flesh until the bright red blood poured
Speaker 2: from it. He paused to look to.
Speaker 4: Noah ghost had a fire in the heart.
Speaker 1: Yes, Father, voice.
Speaker 2: With me, before redoubling his efforts. Finally, he finished his
Speaker 2: terrible swing, looked up once more into the blank white sky,
Speaker 2: and plunged his hand into the boy's chest, wincing and grimacing,
Speaker 2: she proceeded to pull Nathaniel Satterwhite's heart from his body.
Speaker 4: Demerius, give me a shawl, but.
Speaker 2: I was frozen in place by terror.
Speaker 4: Demerius, yes, sir, thank your daughter.
Speaker 2: I handed it to him, the cold wind cutting through
Speaker 2: my clothes, and watched as he carefully wrapped the slick
Speaker 2: red heart. It was careful, loving, almost a tender moment
Speaker 2: from a man not usually prone to tenderness.
Speaker 4: Help me up, daughter, I apologize for the blood on
Speaker 4: my hands. We will buy you a new shawl.
Speaker 2: I left my modest strength to him, and somehow we
Speaker 2: managed to extract him from the grave. Come and then
Speaker 2: together we walked into the church building and into the
Speaker 2: back conclave, where Noah had lit the fire, staring into
Speaker 2: it his face.
Speaker 4: Won boys.
Speaker 2: Father Abbys then fell the bloody package into the fire.
Speaker 2: We watched silently as the flames licked at it, unsure
Speaker 2: at first, before greedily laughing at it, eventually consuming it entirely.
Speaker 2: We set that way for some time, mesomorised by the
Speaker 2: cleansing fire and the horrible work which had preceded it.
Speaker 4: We shall not speak a word of this to the congregation.
Speaker 4: Noah with me, we must fail the grave immediately de matters.
Speaker 4: It has been foul work to day, and I thank
Speaker 4: you for your assistance. Go home and pray the Lord
Speaker 4: will see fit to forgive us. We are doing his will.
Speaker 2: It was strange to go about my duties that afternoon, washing, cooking,
Speaker 2: knowing what I had witnessed. I felt like a spirit
Speaker 2: haunting my own house, And as evenings set in, I
Speaker 2: felt a growing sense of dread that I had not
Speaker 2: seen the last great horror boys to bed. Now. When
Speaker 2: the men returned home, the air was tense in silence.
Speaker 2: They washed their filthy hands in the basin and sat
Speaker 2: stoically down to be served their supper. They ate in
Speaker 2: the grim manner of men condemned to death. Father Josiah
Speaker 2: staring into the fire as if he wished it to
Speaker 2: burn the day's work away. Noah seeming to strain under
Speaker 2: a heavy burden. I began to believe that we would
Speaker 2: pass the entire meal in silence, when finally Noah spoke.
Speaker 1: Father, what is it? I feel a certain trepidation concerning
Speaker 1: our actions. Go on, then, how did you come to
Speaker 1: the conclusion that desecrating the saddle white boy's body was
Speaker 1: the correct course?
Speaker 4: Of action. I have been in contact with the childhood
Speaker 4: friend and Providence. He too is a man of the cloth,
Speaker 4: and has written extensively about vampirism.
Speaker 2: Vamparison to Marius.
Speaker 4: I did not wish to continue this conversation at De
Speaker 4: Marius's presence.
Speaker 1: She was witnessed to today's events. I believe it wise
Speaker 1: for her to understand today's actions. I very much wish
Speaker 1: to be enlightened as well.
Speaker 4: We will not have this discussion in front up demerits.
Speaker 2: I will answer.
Speaker 7: Missus Abbess, Missus Harper, I apologize for disturbing you so
Speaker 7: late in the evening. Is the Reverend here?
Speaker 4: What is it, Missus Harbor.
Speaker 7: Well, sir, it's it's mister Harber. He's come down with
Speaker 7: the fever. I believe that's taken the others.
Speaker 2: So there, Missus Harper, please come in.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 7: He tore apart my kitchen, tried to burn down the
Speaker 7: house before my screams brought doctor Bright my aid.
Speaker 4: Is the doctor still with him?
Speaker 7: He gave mister Harper a sleeping draft, but said there
Speaker 7: was little else he could do tonight.
Speaker 4: Useless. Noah, grab your coat in my Bible and clean
Speaker 4: under your nails. I'll go ahead with Missus Harber. We
Speaker 4: more work to do tonight, come, Missus Harper.
Speaker 1: Noah, he's no more capable than a witch.
Speaker 2: Doctor.
Speaker 1: Noah, I have to clean the grave dirt from my nails.
Speaker 2: Yes, Love, your hands are clean.
Speaker 1: Nothing in this town is clean. I must fall a father.
Speaker 2: Husband. Please, what your father has left you may speak freely.
Speaker 1: I will not trouble you with this.
Speaker 2: Already troubled, Noah. You have sought my counsel before.
Speaker 1: Noah, I I'm sorry, decide sh my love.
Speaker 2: This is a terrible time, and terrible time sometimes call
Speaker 2: for terrible actions. Yes, it is all terrible.
Speaker 1: I apologize for losing my temper.
Speaker 2: It is nothing.
Speaker 4: I must follow father.
Speaker 1: I fear our country doctor is not proving up to
Speaker 1: the task. Bar the door after me.
Speaker 2: September twenty ninth, eighteen seventeen. This last week has proven
Speaker 2: to offer nothing but bloody work for the family. Each evening,
Speaker 2: after the day's work was done, but before the sunset,
Speaker 2: Father Josiah and Noah have slipped behind the church to
Speaker 2: dig up a fresh corpse, hoping to catch culprits before
Speaker 2: they are able to spread the infernal disease, only to
Speaker 2: find later that another neighbor has fallen ill with the
Speaker 2: blood sickness. Anyway, Doctor Bright attends now these rites, has
Speaker 2: taken the ashes of burned hearts to make tinctures, which
Speaker 2: he gives to new victims. But I don't know that
Speaker 2: even he believes in his cures. Rumors abound, people claiming
Speaker 2: to see the departed in the streets at night, hunting
Speaker 2: for a fresh victim, livestock behaving strangely, watching with infernal
Speaker 2: intensity as the farmers went about their daily work. Children
Speaker 2: make up rhymes, and father Abbess has had a box
Speaker 2: made in which he keeps his tools, tools that he
Speaker 2: has kept hidden from the townsfolk as he continues his
Speaker 2: secretive war against a devil he cannot seem to keep
Speaker 2: pace with. One could indeed believe that creatures stalk the night.
Speaker 2: The air is so thick with suspicion. However, the animals
Speaker 2: have remained animals. The rhymes just rhymes. And as for
Speaker 2: the dead stalking our people in the night, well I
Speaker 2: have seen firsthand now that wasn't possible. A dozen bodies
Speaker 2: now lay in the churchyard without hearts. They will not
Speaker 2: trouble the living but the blood sickness is persistent and real,
Speaker 2: and the father Josiah may have prevented the dead from
Speaker 2: stalking the living, he cannot seem to stop with the
Speaker 2: steady trickle of disease that permeates our village. Last night,
Speaker 2: Noah came in late. I'm stumbling in the dark.
Speaker 1: Noah, sh no, No, wife, do not let the l
Speaker 1: whieh all is well, go back sleep de mars.
Speaker 2: Noah, have you been drinking? Sh No? What's the matter?
Speaker 2: What happened? Where's your father? Husband? To speak to me?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: We were called back to the saddur White farm tonight.
Speaker 1: The boy we buried and then desecrated his father has fallen.
Speaker 2: Ill oh no, no, the poor family.
Speaker 1: Yes, we were busy with another family and so did
Speaker 1: not come right away, And when we did, the door
Speaker 1: to the house was a jar when we arrived.
Speaker 4: Hello, James is a sadd White.
Speaker 1: A fire still burned low in the hearth. Supper was
Speaker 1: laid on the table, untouched, despite the late as if
Speaker 1: everyone had disappeared before. Given the chance to eat, it
Speaker 1: would be understandable that James sadder White would not eat
Speaker 1: the fill. But besides the dead child the family had
Speaker 1: two more girls, and Missus sadder White beside. Something was
Speaker 1: terribly amiss.
Speaker 4: It was then.
Speaker 1: I saw it on the floor, blood all across the
Speaker 1: kitchen floor, and in the corner a human tooth. With
Speaker 1: me Now we followed a trail of blood into the
Speaker 1: bedroom to find a massacre. Oh, dear God in heaven.
Speaker 1: It was Missus sadder White. She lay peacefully across the
Speaker 1: narrow bed, as if she had laid down for a
Speaker 1: night's slumber. Put her entire person was covered in blood.
Speaker 1: When we approached the bed, we saw her face, her
Speaker 1: skull caved in, her jaw crookedly hanging open, the one
Speaker 1: eye left her staring horribly up into heaven. And then
Speaker 1: the corner. They were just tossed there so carelessly, like
Speaker 1: rag dolls. They James was nowhere to be found. We
Speaker 1: searched half heartedly to be sure, perhaps hoping that we
Speaker 1: wouldn't find him at all. But find him we did.
Speaker 1: In the barn. It was the sound first I thought
Speaker 1: of the grumblings of a dog busy at his supper
Speaker 1: her stall.
Speaker 2: In the barn.
Speaker 1: There, naked and huddled over a carcass, was James sad White,
Speaker 1: a carcass. Doctor bright sadder White was pulling out and
Speaker 1: eating his entrails, his skin shone, he was so completely
Speaker 1: covered in blood, and on the ground beside him the
Speaker 1: fireplace poker he had used in the murders of the
Speaker 1: last of his family, and the poor doctor. He had
Speaker 1: not yet noticed me. So busy was he with his meal,
Speaker 1: and so I picked up a hammer on a nearby workbench.
Speaker 1: I crept up behind him, and I brought it down
Speaker 1: on the back of his skull. I'd have done it
Speaker 1: again and again and again and again if Father hadn't
Speaker 1: entered the barn at that moment and seen me standing there.
Speaker 1: Poker raised, Nah, is he still breathing? I studied his
Speaker 1: face as he stood thinking, gazing down at the murderer
Speaker 1: who had once been James Saturway. And I stood there dumbly,
Speaker 1: poker raised above my head, awaiting the word to finish
Speaker 1: the bloody deed. But the word did not come.
Speaker 4: Son, lower arms. Father, we are not murderers. Noah, find
Speaker 4: me a length of rope, Father, a length of rope.
Speaker 1: And so I did as I was bidden. We sat
Speaker 1: him up, bound his hands and feet, and together we
Speaker 1: threw him over Father's horse.
Speaker 4: Sh sh, good boy, We'll be free of this load
Speaker 4: soon enough. I'm going to take him to the jail
Speaker 4: and place him in the cell, and there I'll try
Speaker 4: to do the work of saving his soul and sit
Speaker 4: with him until dawn and we can pull in men
Speaker 4: to watch him.
Speaker 1: And what am I to do in the meantime?
Speaker 4: I want you to say final rights over the sadder,
Speaker 4: white women and doctor Bright and then burn everything to
Speaker 4: the ground.
Speaker 1: Father, what is it we need assistance?
Speaker 4: Are you not able to start a fire?
Speaker 1: We need assistance with the spread of the blood fever.
Speaker 1: We need doctors, we need soldiers. We had a doctor,
Speaker 1: a country doctor who was old and set in his waist.
Speaker 4: Doctors could do nothing to prevent what happened here tonight.
Speaker 4: And we have the Lord's soldiers on our side.
Speaker 1: None of the angels in heaven intervened on this night.
Speaker 1: The Lord himself turned a blind eye.
Speaker 4: You had best tread lightly, My son bur in the house.
Speaker 1: Should we not give them a Christian burial? Father?
Speaker 4: The Lord will find them wherever they are.
Speaker 1: Yon I returned to the house, walked towards the bedroom.
Speaker 1: I could not I could not look at them. Demeris.
Speaker 1: I stood in the doorway, eyes closed, and I prayed
Speaker 1: as I have never prayed before. Give those frantic and
Speaker 1: we does not do temptation, but deliver us for meful,
Speaker 1: deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the power,
Speaker 1: and the glory. Forever, Father, plant eternity on my eyelids.
Speaker 1: I cannot see beyond the evil of this world. Oh,
Speaker 1: and then I closed the door on the horrible scene
Speaker 1: once and for all. There's no secret that James Saturate
Speaker 1: White was a fan of brandy. In the cupboard I
Speaker 1: found a bottle with which to help spread the fire,
Speaker 1: and a second to doll the edges of the images
Speaker 1: carved in my mind.
Speaker 2: Noah, but he would speak no more. That night I
Speaker 2: could not follow him into sleep, so vivid were the
Speaker 2: images in my head. The satur White girls had been
Speaker 2: my own children's ages. Catherine Satterwhite had been in the
Speaker 2: pews for each Sunday service that I could remember, next
Speaker 2: to James, a doting father. I could not comprehend the evil,
Speaker 2: nor could I see a way to fight against it.
Speaker 2: I wondered what Father Josiah was thinking that night, watching
Speaker 2: over the beast that James had become. I did not
Speaker 2: have to wait long to find out. Just before dawn,
Speaker 2: I gave upon sleep entirely and quietly pulled myself up
Speaker 2: and out of bed. I dressed in the dim blue light,
Speaker 2: without quite knowing why, I was drawn out of the
Speaker 2: dark house and into the morning. The wind was chill,
Speaker 2: and the gray sky's pretended rain or snow. My feet
Speaker 2: carried me into town through the bleak morning, and there
Speaker 2: I found horror almost unspeakable. A large crowd stood in
Speaker 2: front of the jail. The people in it all carried
Speaker 2: signs of mourning activity. A boy carrying sacks of flowers
Speaker 2: stood dumbly next to the butcher, who still wore his
Speaker 2: dirty apron. All stared at the front of the building,
Speaker 2: where Father Abbess stood still as stone. And beside him,
Speaker 2: hanging from the poor rafters of the town jail, was
Speaker 2: the body of James satterwhite, shirtless and covered in blood,
Speaker 2: a sucking hole in his chest where once his heart
Speaker 2: had been. It seems that I had arrived just in
Speaker 2: time for Father Abbess raised his hands, hushing the crowd.
Speaker 4: It is time, my friends, to bring to light the
Speaker 4: truth of our situation, which, despite my best effort, is dire.
Speaker 4: The whispers are true. The devil walks among us here
Speaker 4: in Abbystown. Friends, Friends, let us remain levelheaded.
Speaker 8: What is this?
Speaker 2: What has become of James? The family house has burned down,
Speaker 2: with no sign of Martha or the girls.
Speaker 4: James turned down a dark path, I am afraid to say,
Speaker 4: and like many, he succumbed to the blood fever. But
Speaker 4: he did not go peacefully.
Speaker 5: He took the lives of his wife and daughters knowa,
Speaker 5: and I had to subdue him and bring him to justice.
Speaker 4: He died a mere hour ago, cursing his God and
Speaker 4: his family. He was no longer James Sadder White. He
Speaker 4: was an agent of Satan. The curfew has not been enough,
Speaker 4: and prayer is a useful tool, but it is not
Speaker 4: the only tool we have at our disposal. Henceforth, we
Speaker 4: shall take all of the afflicted into the church, where
Speaker 4: we will bind them and work exocisms as needed. It
Speaker 4: has become clear that it is the bite of the
Speaker 4: infectant that causes the blood fever. Therefore, should you be bitten,
Speaker 4: it is your moral responsibility to turn yourself in. And
Speaker 4: if you see someone who has infected, turn them in.
Speaker 4: The Church will do its best to reclaim those who
Speaker 4: fall ill, and should we fail, the bodies will be
Speaker 4: disposed of in the manner of James sadur Whites. The
Speaker 4: heart shall be removed and burned. And doctor Bright has
Speaker 4: mentioned that a tincture may be made of the ashes
Speaker 4: that will stave off the illness. We shall attempt to
Speaker 4: use this remedy when available.
Speaker 8: What is the meaning of this, Reverend Abbess, What have
Speaker 8: you done to this man?
Speaker 2: It was Jerry Havoc who dismounted and marched into the crowd,
Speaker 2: who parted way for him as the Red Sea parted
Speaker 2: for Moses. I watched Father Abbess for a response. In
Speaker 2: his eyes I saw something frightful, an intensity that I
Speaker 2: could only describe as hatred.
Speaker 8: Mister Havoc, this is butchery. What crime does this man
Speaker 8: commit to ue him? Such a savage fate? And at
Speaker 8: the hands of a man of the cloth, no less.
Speaker 4: This man murdered his family. He was found eating the
Speaker 4: raw entrails of doctor Bright. Dr Bright's journey murdered attending
Speaker 4: to James. James murdered as a result of this blood fever,
Speaker 4: this possession which we must now fight.
Speaker 8: And so you defiled his corpse and hung it up
Speaker 8: in the town square. What to teach the illness a lesson?
Speaker 4: I have done this to illustrate that all here have
Speaker 4: a common enemy that must be dealt with severely.
Speaker 8: Is that common enemy? Madness?
Speaker 4: Reverend ow dare you?
Speaker 8: What of medicine, of sound science? This is the sickness
Speaker 8: of the flesh? Is it not with corporeal roots?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 8: I am personal friends with Nathan Smith, who founded the
Speaker 8: medical academy at Dartmouth. I'd wager he could help find
Speaker 8: the real root of this.
Speaker 4: This is a church matter, now, mister Havoc.
Speaker 8: I do not doubt the ability of the church, sir,
Speaker 8: but evidence suggests that its leader has lost its way.
Speaker 4: The evidence suggests that this blood curse began when.
Speaker 5: You first arrived, mister Abbock, how dare you, sir? And
Speaker 5: I will make sure that if any further investigation on
Speaker 5: the loss of life and corruption of spirit leads back
Speaker 5: to your house, If you do, in fact, walk with
Speaker 5: the devil, sir, I will see you hung.
Speaker 2: These two men, Abbess and Havoc, stood face to face,
Speaker 2: eyes full of malice, and the world ground to a
Speaker 2: halt around them. I saw in that moment that both
Speaker 2: were capable of killing.
Speaker 4: This is madness.
Speaker 8: The reverend abbess will see this town burn.
Speaker 2: And then he was gone, and with him all the
Speaker 2: sound and fury of the morning. The crowd dispersed quickly, then,
Speaker 2: afraid to remain in the presence of Satellite's corpse and
Speaker 2: the mad preacher who had hung him up. When Father
Speaker 2: Josiah turned his eyes to me, they had also drained
Speaker 2: of their wrath. I saw instead a man defeated, exhausted.
Speaker 4: De Marius.
Speaker 2: Father Josiah, I did not mean to intrude No, no.
Speaker 4: No, no, dear, of course not. I am sorry that
Speaker 4: you have had to bear witness to all of this. Noah.
Speaker 4: Did he return home, yes, sir? And did he rest, Yes, sir,
Speaker 4: he was asleep when I left. Return to the house
Speaker 4: and rouse him, plice, and tell him to meet me
Speaker 4: at the church. An ild wind blows, my dear.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, And with that he departed. I wish to
Speaker 2: believe that these events are at a turning point, that
Speaker 2: the Sign of the Angels will regain its advantage. I
Speaker 2: wish to believe that this will end the third of
Speaker 2: October eighteen seventeen. My worst fear has been realized. The
Speaker 2: church has become a sort of hospital for the condemned.
Speaker 2: Over the previous days, all able bodied men not working
Speaker 2: the harvest have been enlisted. A dozen poor souls have
Speaker 2: been brought in bound and raving. They are tied down
Speaker 2: to whatever furniture is available and taken care of to
Speaker 2: the best of any one's ability. Father Abbess ceased to
Speaker 2: their salvation, while Noah has been relegated to disposing of
Speaker 2: their emaciated corpses, driving a stake through their hearts before
Speaker 2: burying them in a common grave that grows larger and larger,
Speaker 2: as if it is hungry, as if it will devour us.
Speaker 2: All I have witnessed the horror inside the sanctuary, the
Speaker 2: curses from madmen, the stench of their bodies and excrement,
Speaker 2: the dead eyes of the men who nurse and feed them,
Speaker 2: their neighbors and friends. I cannot imagine that damnation falls
Speaker 2: far from this scene. It was in this mire that
Speaker 2: our family's fate was sealed. I had come to bring
Speaker 2: dinner to Noah and Father Abbess. I was crossing through
Speaker 2: the churchyard, where men were busy at work digging a
Speaker 2: large hole in the ground that was consuming more and
Speaker 2: more of our people. I had paused to say a
Speaker 2: brief prayer. When Noah exited into the yard, a small
Speaker 2: body slung over his shoulder, a child's. He stopped in
Speaker 2: his tracks when he saw me, deep shame on his
Speaker 2: gaunt face, as if it were his fault that this
Speaker 2: child had passed, as if he bore the guilt of
Speaker 2: all the death and misery that had befallen us, as
Speaker 2: if there was something, anything, that could be done. My Noah,
Speaker 2: my poor sweet Noah, gentle and kind, thoughtful and good.
Speaker 2: I wished I could relieve his pard demerius, he said,
Speaker 2: and took another step towards me, when horror of horror's,
Speaker 2: the small body hanging over his shoulder became suddenly animated,
Speaker 2: thrashing like a wild animal, and sunk its teeth right
Speaker 2: into Noah's neck. The grave digger sprang into action, helping
Speaker 2: Noah to pull the feral child off of him, pinning
Speaker 2: it to the ground, and standing there in awestruck terror
Speaker 2: as it thrashed and cursed beneath them. I ran to
Speaker 2: no One, who was clutching his neck, a look of
Speaker 2: panic in his eyes. It was then that Father I
Speaker 2: was burst from the church, alerted by the screams in
Speaker 2: his hand. He clutched the steak he'd used so often
Speaker 2: in previous days. He took stock of the scene, and
Speaker 2: before approaching, Noah had considered the small body writhing on
Speaker 2: the ground, slick with bloody sweat, its eyes wild with hatred.
Speaker 2: He stepped between the two men holding the child down,
Speaker 2: raised the steak, and plunged it through his heart.
Speaker 1: Forgive me, father, I thought, I thought the boy was dead.
Speaker 1: I could not feel the blood pulsing. I I'm sorry
Speaker 1: your throat.
Speaker 4: Remove your hands from your neck, Noah.
Speaker 2: Noah did as he was told, revealing an angry red
Speaker 2: white mark from which a small trickle of blood had flowed.
Speaker 4: All will be well, lad, We're in the hands of
Speaker 4: the Father. Now de Marius take him home and wash
Speaker 4: his wound, please.
Speaker 2: Please, yes, sir, come husband. And so we walked the
Speaker 2: road home that we had diggn so many times over
Speaker 2: the years, past the familiar fields, houses of neighbors, the
Speaker 2: tree under which Noah had composed his terrible poem to
Speaker 2: Woomby in our youth. We saw none of it. We
Speaker 2: saw only the shadows that surround us. We saw only
Speaker 2: the great black and known ahead. After a time, Noah
Speaker 2: spoke in a whisper.
Speaker 1: Demeros, come, darling, we.
Speaker 2: Must get home. We must wash the wound before it
Speaker 2: becomes infected.
Speaker 9: Demerius, no, please, please, no, we must hurry walk de
Speaker 9: Marius no, no, no, I won't hear it.
Speaker 1: I won't, Demerius, it is already done. You were going
Speaker 1: to need to be brave. Now you're going to have
Speaker 1: to take the boys and go far away.
Speaker 2: But I cannot leave him. I cannot leave.
Speaker 3: I will not.
Speaker 2: Ah, I will see this to its end.
Speaker 3: Havoctown was created by me Aaron Mankey. The show was
Speaker 3: written and directed by Nicholas Takoski. This episode was edited
Speaker 3: and sound designed by Rima El Kali and Jesse Funk,
Speaker 3: starring Jewels State as Corene Avis, James Callus as Jerry Havoc,
Speaker 3: Felicia Day as Sylvie, Harris Ray Wise as Josiah Abbas,
Speaker 3: Crystal Lee as Demeris, Daniel Ernesto A known as Noah Abbas,
Speaker 3: with additional voice acting from Summer rain Menkey, Sasha Hatfield,
Speaker 3: Beverly Bremers, and Aaron Mankey. This season is directed by
Speaker 3: Nicholas Tukoski, with assistant directors Sarah Klein and Jake Diamond,
Speaker 3: casting by Sunday Bowling CSA and Meg Mormon CSA. Production
Speaker 3: coordinator Wayna Calderon. Our theme song was created by Chris
Speaker 3: Childs executive producers Aaron Mankey, Trevor Young, and Matt Frederick,
Speaker 3: with supervising producer Rima Elkali and producers Nomes Griffin and
Speaker 3: Jesse Funk. Havoctown is set in the Bridgewater Audio Universe,
Speaker 3: which includes the hit fiction podcasts Bridgewater and Consumed. Learn
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