I think in that moment it serves a narrative purpose. It serves a structural purpose of setting you up for one thing and then giving you another. I think there are plenty of times where it really is, it's just long-winded and is not a way that we speak anymore or write anymore. So yeah, I don't know that it is necessarily always serving a purpose. I think it's just how James is writing. There's a spot later where she kind of talks about this truth, she talks about truth a lot. The truth of either the evil that is trying to inhabit these children or the truth of whatever went on with miles which I'll get back to in a second

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