"I'm quite real, I assure you - and I'm not a chief, although you were right to assume that I am a native American."
"May we join you?" Andrew asked.
"From what I understand, this is your table. I should be asking to join you."
They introduced Sparrow and Martin.
"Ah, yes. The youthful heroine of the Agness Farms Horror."
"Is that what they're calling it?" Matt asked.
"That and even more lurid things."
"I... we remember you talking about the futility of evil," Andrew said, pointing to Matt and himself, "so tell us, did good triumph over evil here in Madeleine?"
"More so than it usually seems to, wouldn't you agree?"
"That depends on where you live. Here, yes. Agness Farms, no."
"Some good may even come of that."
"Not for the dead..."
"... and not for Martina," Sparrow added.
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