EXCOLO

I'm really enjoying this. Sitting here with Michael, talking about what's happening in town and sharing what we think about it. He leans forward and I feel something, I'm not sure what it is, almost like a shiver but I'm not cold. He picks up the teapot and the feeling changes but doesn't go away. I wonder what it is?

But he's talking so I focus my attention on that instead,"The scarecrow was walking in front of the sheriff's office, and only the head was flaming, or at least part of it. I don't know why it was on fire. It arrived on the scene that way and it didn't seem to bother it any during the time I watched." He thinks for a bit and then adds, I saw two horse-riders go back and forth with it but how it ended, I don't know. I was inside the beauty salon at that point.

He's very good to answer all my questions even though the answers always give me more questions to ask. "Which part was on fire? who were the horse-riders? If you don't know how it ended, do you know who might? Besides the horse-riders and the scarecrow, I mean."

I finish my tea before I think to ask, "Why were you in the beauty salon?"

My muffin is almost gone when Michael says, Besides the scarecrow and the twins, I heard most of town lost its memory for a while, and before that, one of the mayor candidates was murdered but the killer was never found.When you said these kinds of things are happening more frequently, did you mean things like that?

I put the last bit of the muffin in my mouth and chew while thinking, is that the kind of thing I meant when I said that? I suppose so. I nod.