I've my suspicions that woman was a witch or spirit, to have been a-waiting so long. And he had the same sorry nature as his grandfather, thinking only of what money he could get from her, not any of the pain she'd been in when she was left behind. [There's a pause.] The creatures of the mountain-the Skim, the Bammat, even the Hidebehind-they all came out, to drive him to her door. [He shakes his head.] She took him, and I don't think he's come back down the mountain since.
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[Sorry it's not a happy ending...?]