The Conglomerate Spirit

The rules of movies and fairy tales did not apply to this world. This was a snag, an unraveling in the weave of human order. Who knew it was so delicate? Look at this place. The whole landscape was a dead alien city. There have got to be pockets like this all around the world. Strange things happen, they really do, but only in these little concentrated spaces. And these stories leech out. They decay and change. They become myths and urban legends and campfire stories. What are we doing? Finding out what it wants. I suspected what it wanted, it already had. She looked back at me with a tiny grin. Yeah, smudge stick.

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