The Ailing Winds of Change, A Collection
Reunion
It has been two years since Sarah Williams has been back home, her schooling in the southern Ontario port city of Yarnak has kept her too busy to make the trip up north. Fortunately, her younger brother Todd paid for her to return this Thanksgiving, apparently his new job in Beetville has been a successful one. Todd even offered to pick her up at the Beetville bus station, saving her a two hour-long taxi drive. While she sits outside the station basking in the warmth of a clear sunny October day, a chill runs down her back as she remembers she hated having to come to this town. There were always reports of wild and domestic animal attacks, and in the 90’s symbols of a black goat head and a stag continued to pop up everywhere in graffiti; it all creeped her out. Her ruminations on her childhood are cut short when her brother pulls up in a white pick-up truck with the words 'Borealis Hyper Inc' painted across the doors. When she sees him that odd, familiar chill runs down her spine. He says something to her with that sweet smile of his but his words fade away to nothing while her vision clouds to darkness.
