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Allen shook his head. “Young man, I’m not sure you want to be snooping around in these types of things, especially after you get a hold of that book in the library.” He leaned over the counter, and his narrowed eyes struck Tony as not quite all there. “Take my warning about that girl of yours, too. Nothing good is gonna come from her now that the thing’s got her in its sights. Sure she’s fine now, but you just give it a few weeks, maybe even just a few days. She’ll start thinking she’s crazy, and then the thing’ll steal her sanity. She’ll be nothing but a broken doll blubbering away about shadows and such.”
“I have to try. I can’t just let her be…be consumed by this thing,” Tony argued. His voice was firm and his gaze unwavering, and the store keeper sighed.
“It’s on the outs
