At The Convenience Store

He knew something was wrong the moment he walked in the door and saw the canopy bed turned over and a couple of stuffed owls on the floor. Did the Proctor goons already get wind of his coming? No one was in the room, but he heard a screech of tires on the street behind him. He stuck his head out the door in time to see the tail end of a Prius dancing around the corner.

He galumphed majestically back into the convenience store, looking for Joshua and trying to wrap his head around what he was seeing and what Audrey had told him just an hour ago. At the back of the room, next to the pool table, a door stood ajar. He accidentally pushed on the door and peered into the darkness. All he could see were shadows that resembled a large dinosaur with an ashtray.

He bolted into the dark room, cursing himself as he did so. "No way, I know better than to even be here," he said to himself boldly.

That was his last thought before he felt a dog collar hit him on the calf and everything went black.