50 - At the 9 sign.
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PJ is ticked off at me for messing up the deploy
of his ogre sensors on the hill the other day. But
it's not my fault the goblins are playing with
them, or that I don't know how to reprogram them
in fifth or whatever. Anyways, I'm back out there
yesterday trying to fix them, and when I get done
I hike out back to that path where I found the
cars buried in the hill. And I continue on down
that path for an hour into the bush, and this is
new territory to me. Sometimes you got to explore.
And then I see it. It's this little carved and
painted wooden sign on a peg in the ground, and it
has "1" etched into it. And how or why this came
to be way out here, I can't say. I keep going on
down the path, and sure enough there's a 2, 3, 4,
and so on. And when I finally get to 9, I see
there is one of those battery-powered tea lights
sitting on top of it. Then I get this funny
feeling, like this is somehow an important place.
Barely there by the sign, is a track leading off
the path and into the deeper woods. And then it
starts, this high-pitched buzzing in my head. I
wince and look over to the other side, and up
there sitting on a branch is that old woman I saw
that afternoon last month at the ball diamond
washroom. And she's pointing down at me and
laughing, "You don't know what to do! You don't
know what to do!"
And the buzzing gets louder and I grab my forehead
in my hand. The buzzing stops, and when I look up,
the old woman is gone. And I stand there a long
while by the 9 sign, before I head on home.
