o trace of me. The residents grew more fearful, their resentment towa

han returned. This ti

chair, an oxygen tube in her nose, her face pale and gaunt.

lict town square. He stood before them, a

oing off the crumbling brick buildings. "And I know yo

the decaying to

en your businesses, bring jobs back. I will give you a future

ne for a community that had been drowning for decades. But they l

grief. He looked at Ethan, then at Nicole, wh

?" Barney said, his voice heavy

a deep

t. She didn' t tell you because she was afraid of y

. "Pregnant?

Matthew. A few weeks later, she was found in the woods. She' d been b

an stared at Barney, his mind

mine if she died so soon after arriving?" he argued,

tal. I was no longer a spirit watching the present;

s enabler. Ethan is still arguing, still denying, still blind. But the tr