Chapter six: it's the things closest

"How have you been?" Jack said as he put his arm around Karen giving her a squeeze. "I'm fine.it's just that, well" Karen stared vigorously at the ground as if in a staring contest. Deep in thought. "What is it" Jack said as he pushed her chin up to face him "That afternoon when I spilled my soup to help Ann, as I came back to clean it up it said something" she turned away "The soup talked to you?"

"No it didn't talk to me you idiot!" Karen stood up. "Karen I'm sorry it was a dumb question. so what did happen?"

"Well the way it spilled it spelt out something." She sat back down again. "It said "I will not rest" and it's been freaking me out ever since." Karen turned to look jack in the eye "Karen it's going to be fine.I wont let anything happen to you."

"Its not me I fear for, it's the people closest to me, my mother, Ann, you, I'm scared." Karen nuzzled closer to jack

"Hey I promise it's going to be fine."

The next day jack arose to a beautiful carpet of snow.

"I better go feed the animals," Jack said as he briskly walked to the chicken shed "No" There before jack laid all his chickens, dead.

"What could have happened" Rick said in bewilderment "You came out here and they were just dead?" He questions "Yes.I don't know what happened" Jack said in sadness "That's so strange.what the" Rick took a closer look at them "Jack it seams your chickens were perfectly healthy.there's no apparent cause of death" He turned to look at jack "So what's that mean?" "These chickens died for no reason they just died" Rick said "What but chickens don't just die do they?" Jack said with a puzzled look on his face "I don't know.in all my days working with chickens I have never seen anything like that."

Jack decided to take a walk up the mountain. Hours went by, as the beautiful winter day turned into the bitter cold of dark. Jack looked up to find himself in front of the old decrepit inn.

"What is that?" Jack said as he looked at the top of the inn to see what looked like a fire at the top window.

It seamed to spread throughout the house. Flames leaking through the windows and doors.

"The inn is on fire" Jack blinked

All was silent

The house was, as it lay, everything was fine "But.what the...how I just saw it on fire, that's impossible" Jack turned around to now face the full moon deep in the sky. "Wow I didn't realize it was this late, I better go home now" Jack turned around and started his way back down the mountain, back home.

The light snow began to drift down once again as jack reached the bottom of the hill. He turned the corner at the inn to find him self in the middle of the snow covered square. "They are here you must go" Jack turned around suddenly to see a ghostly figure whiter then the snow itself. "Who. are you?" Jack stuttered "They are here you MUST GO...Run" Jack didn't even turn around he just ran

Ran by barleys farm

Ran by the chicken farm

: Bam:

The lights were bright in jack's eyes as he found himself in a white bed. "Jack are you ok? Everyone he's awake" Jack looked up to see Karen by his side wiping his face of with a wet towel. "What happed?" Jack said as he sat up in his bed "Harrison found you in the snow unconscious's as he was doing his nightly rounds" Harrison walked over to jack "Hey there... how are you?" Jack looked up "Nothing that a hot shower and some aspirin couldn't cure" The doctor said as he came over to the bed"

"He is going to be fine perfectly fine."