"I'm not sure I want to take you on vacation with me anymore," Dan Cain told his friend, if that's what you could call him, Herbert West. "Not after that."

Herbert's features set into a look that told Dan the budding mad scientist was upset. "I don't see how it was wrong."

"It's one of the things you just don't understand."

Herbert's brow furrowed and his eyebrows knitted. "What does that mean, Dan?" he asked, both upset and angry.

Dan gulped. "Uh...nothing."

"That's right, that was nothing." Herbert relaxed a bit. "At least we'll be home soon."

"Just where are we anyways?"

"You could always check that sign." Herbert pointed at a sign ahead of them in the road. It read "Welcome to Silent Hill" in faded white letters on a black background.

"Silent Hill, huh? Never heard of it."

As soon as they got into town, they heard Dan's car sputter. The car suddenly came to a dead stop.

"Oh, not now. Not now," Dan said emotionally, trying to start the car. "Start. Come on, start."

"We're in town," Herbert said, wondering why Dan would be upset over a car dying. "We can call a tow truck. At least nothing has happened to us."

"Good idea, Herbert." They got out of the car and grabbed their luggage. They bumped into a young woman with black hair and brown eyes in a gray sweater, red pants and black shoes as they walked down the street.

"I-I'm sorry," the young woman stuttered meekly.

"It's okay, it was all me," Dan apologized. "I didn't mean to do that. It's just that my friend bumped into me as we were passing you."

"Dan, don't say that!" Herbert shouted, only heard by the young woman.

"What are you doing here?" Dan asked.

"I'm looking for my mom...mother and my brother as well."

"I hope you find them."

Dan and Herbert walked into a flower shop. Dan approached the person behind the counter.

"Could we use your phone?" Dan asked. "My car has suddenly stopped and I need to call a tow truck."

"Go ahead," she answered, handing Dan a phone book.

"Thanks," he replied, dialing a number. He told the company where the car was. "Thanks. That won't be long at all." He hung up the phone and grabbed a map before he and Herbert headed out of the door. "They said it's going to take a while to fix the car. We might as well take a look around town, it seems like a nice place."

"That would certainly be better than doing nothing," Herbert said.

They walked away down Lindsey.