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Appearances Over Time
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I asked what kind.
"'She sighed and leaned back, fingers folded.
"'There were logging camps up those hollers in the early twentieth century.
"'Men came in from all over.
Some never left.
"'People blamed accidents, fever, drinking.
"'But the old folks said there was something in the woods that learned you, "'that called you, that made you walk out to it like you were sleepwalking.'
I asked if she believed it.
She looked at me for a long moment.
Then she said quietly, I believe people are missing.
I believe the mountains are honest about one thing.
If you underestimate them, they will take you.
I showed her the line about borrow's voices.
She nodded slowly.
Borrowed man, she said.
That's one name.
I asked about the cabin owner.
Her gaze sharpened.
Cal, she repeated, like tasting the name.
Cal is not his real name.