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Episode 50: The Horns of the Altar

Old Gods of Appalachia

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Polly Barrow's Response to the Portal

Polly knew the boy had no training in using his gift. She just needed to handle it delicately and quickly as the shadow spilling from the left hand door was growing deeper. With all the restraint she could muster, she kicked Jonah Hellbender in the stomach. The boy flew several feet to the air coming to rest with an audible thud and the portals fliggered and died. All around him, the men who had driven up the mountain to Ruth Barber's house were on the ground, writhing and screaming, but these strange figures draped in black weren't among them. Polybarrow wrestled with one halfway across the clearing, her armored claws making short work of it; then

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