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The Fastest Kid in the NeighborhoodSleep proved troublesome for Jonah even after the young spiritess lifted the spiritual endowment. He was simply too wired. When sleep finally did overtake him, what awaited him in the dream world was just as unsettling as what he'd recently experienced in the waking world.
His dreams were muddled. At one point, there were flashes of murderous figures with vapory masses where their faces should have been. At another point there were collections of clocks, also made of shadowy vapors, which spun clockwise and counter-clockwise in intermittent patterns. The even stranger thing about the clocks was that they ticked slowly at first, but then ticked faster and faster with each subsequent movement. At the end on the dream, they spun so rapidly that Jonah's
