“I know what he wants to do with them,” Jimmy said. “He’s going to torture them and kill them, so that they’ll be punished or some s**t, right? To make them better people…clean their souls. And maybe to get some kind of weird revenge on me or somethin’.”
Avery nodded, but Jimmy sensed Avery hadn’t heard a word Jimmy had said. What had this guy done to him? Avery kept looking around like he was really tense. Like he felt somebody was going to come up behind him and hit him in the back of the head or something.
Avery said, “That guy really wants you.”
“What do you mean?”
Avery’s eyes got red again and he started crying all over again, shaking and covering his face with his hands.
Jimmy went to him and took his hands away from his face.
“What are you talkin’ about, man?”
Avery sniffed
