She takes a deep breath, and fiddles with her mug for a moment or two longer, then starts.
"We--my friends and I--think it's always been in Derry. Like, before Derry was even there. Underground." Beat. "We always just called it 'it'--we all knew what we were talking about."
She takes a sip of hot chocolate, then goes on.
"Two years ago, there were a lot of kids going missing. Sometimes they turned up dead. Sometimes they just...never turned up anywhere. There was a curfew and everything, and the police were trying to figure out who was doing it--but they couldn't, because it wasn't really a person. It was it."
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She takes a deep breath, and fiddles with her mug for a moment or two longer, then starts.
"We--my friends and I--think it's always been in Derry. Like, before Derry was even there. Underground." Beat. "We always just called it 'it'--we all knew what we were talking about."
She takes a sip of hot chocolate, then goes on.
"Two years ago, there were a lot of kids going missing. Sometimes they turned up dead. Sometimes they just...never turned up anywhere. There was a curfew and everything, and the police were trying to figure out who was doing it--but they couldn't, because it wasn't really a person. It was it."