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- He turned his head and saw the mushrooms he'd spit out before on the rock, right next to him.
- He reached out and swallowed them whole.
- And then he was falling.
- For a minute, he thought nothing had happened.
- He was still on the rock. The fog was everywhere.
- Then he realized the weight on his back was gone.
- He got to his hands and knees and grimaced: his back felt as if someone had taken a sharp rake to it and scraped repeatedly.
- Nearby, he heard the sounds of soft, gentle crying. "Hello?"
- "Don't come near me, don't come any closer, don't! Don't! Don't!"
- It was the voice of a child: a boy. Scared to death, from the sound of it.
- The mist cleared.
- Ten feet away, a boy sat on the rock, holding a man's head in his lap. The man wasn't moving.
- Crawford had seen them before. In the paper that had fallen to the floor at the Burkittsville Historical Society. And in the last--trip?--he had taken."Nine Year-Old Son Treated for Shock."
- This was the nine-year-old.
- "Leave me alone!" the boy screamed.
- "It's all right." Crawford sat back down and held up his hands to show he meant no harm. "I'm not going to hurt you."
- "You're not real," the boy said. "Go away."
- Crawford suddenly realized something. This was different from the other time he'd seen the boy.
- This time, the boy could see him.
- He was really here--wherever here was.
- "I'm a policeman, son. You don't have to be scared."
- The boy said nothing.
- "What's your name?"
- "Go away."
- Crawford sighed. "Look--"
- The world exploded.
- It was daylight again.
- He was back with the five hunters: the ones with old-fashioned clothes, and the antique rifles.
- Only now they didn't have the rifles.
- Now they were lying on the rock, tied together at their hands and feet, and--
- Crawford's stomach rolled.
- He heard a noise behind him.
- He turned and saw the little girl, the one who had been holding a doll.
- Now she was holding a knife.
- "I am coming, Detective," she said.
- He closed his eyes.
- He was sitting on the rock again.
- The boy was staring at him. "Where did you go?"
- Crawford didn't answer. How long would he be here--in this place, wherever this place was? How long before he was back on the rock with Fellowes again?
- - Blair Witch: Graveyard Shift, chapter Nine
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