The Shine

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I met Brad at the Blue Willow Café. Spare ribs and sauerkraut for $10.99 isn't a great deal for a lunch special. It's not bad either. The raspberry pie was top notch.

After we ordered Brad started telling me about this job doing sales online for a shirt company I had never heard of like we were on a date. I told him nicely that I didn't give a shit about his job selling shirts online, start talking about your uncle. He said "oh" and kind of frowned. Maybe he did think it was a date.

Since he wasn't saying anything on his own I tried to ease into things by asking how he was feeling after seeing a crazy mind-shattering thing. I mentioned that he seemed very upset in his videos and that was perfectly reasonably given the situation. He was embarrassed and said that he took them down. His uncle was on the case so there was no reason to worry. I asked who his uncle was and what he was going to do but he ignored me.

He was never really upset, just surprised because he's mentally protected. On account of his power. Seeing what he saw would break a normal person but because he's so special he can handle it. I was confused because he said that nothing like that had ever happened to him before. Maybe he was more shaken than he was letting on because it often felt like we were having two different conversations.

I said that I barely know magic myself but maybe I could help him learn and he started talking about some anime bullshit with a character that can't die but has been buried alive multiple times and gets injured and experiences pain, tiredness, and hunger even with his special anime powers. While I was trying to think of a nice way to say "WTF are you talking about" he said that he's like that character now because his visions have blessed him with suck.

"Visions? I thought you said the only other time you this happened was once in college."

His response was to say that the visions had always been inside him, he just never knew about them until I confirmed it. I let him ramble for a while hoping that he would eventually get to his uncle. He never did. I had to ask. Several times.

At first Brad said that he shouldn't talk about it but then he did anyway with very little effort on my part. He clearly thought what his uncle did was cool as fuck. Once when they were sitting around the fire getting good and drunk the uncle told him that back in the 80's he and his buddies had killed some Satanists that were mutilating animals. Killed them before they could graduate to kidnapping and sacrificing kids.

As Brad tells it a local veterinarian kept finding mutilated animals by the side of the read and somehow tracked the people making them to an old house in the woods where "they" did their Satanic rituals. The vet told the uncle and after confirming what the Satanists were up to out there he and his friends got their shotguns and "took care of business".

As Brad put it "You have to remember that in the 80's Satanic cults were everywhere. Son of Sam. Zodiac. Amway. They were killing thousands of kids every year. Lots of parents took things into their own hands like my uncle did. They had to do what they had to do because the government either was part of it or looked the other way."

Sounds like total bullshit to me. Either bullshit Brad was making up on his own or bullshit that a drunk uncle tells his stupid nephew while sitting around getting more drunk. It doesn't matter if it's bullshit if the uncle is actually going to do something.

I asked him again what the uncle was going to do and he said that he was going to kill Mary since she's the "source". I admit I panicked a little right then. I told him that was not the case and I needed to talk to the uncle immediately.

His response? "That's not a good idea, Uncle Donny doesn't like talking to women. So look, are we going to have sex or what? If not I have shit to do today."

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