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Adding to their misery was the bitter disappointment of not locating the treasure they'd come all this way to find. Of course, by the time this stormy
night was over they'd all learn there were worse things in store for them than having to go home empty-handed. Far worse.
In fact, it would be a miracle if any of them ever got to go home at all.

Inside the dilapidated church they all hoped to find adventure and incredible wealth, but unfortunately something else would be waiting for them inside those desecrated walls.
Something that had once been holy.
Something that stood watch over this corrupted and forgotten place.
Something that straddled the razor-thin line between man and beast, life and death, heaven and hell.

Kelly ran to get him his coffee, thrilled to be finally hearing about the mysterious little backwoods community his family had been forced to move away from so long ago. Her own father had never talked about it and until today, she'd seriously wondered if a place called Miller's Grove had ever actually existed.
Apparently it had.
And something really bad had happened there.

Freedom is only a nightmare now, a curse to haunt his rare moments of lucid thought, but when he does think clearly, he remembers what the village elders did to him all those long years ago and how he vowed to make them рау.
Someday they'll come back.
He will be ready.