A/N: I couldn't quite remember if the antique store was the Green Lion, so if I'm wrong, can someone let me know what it was called?
I left the exam room after Dahlia, checked the phone book for the address of the antique shop named on the key, and checked my map to see where I was going. I ran up the street, avoiding dogs, birds and those monkey-things, past the Town Center building, until I found the Green Lion antique store. I went down the stairs and unlocked the door, entering into what looked like someone's attic, you know what I mean, with junk everywhere. There was a big, old looking closet thing against the far back wall. When I walked over to have a look, I could see the scuff marks where somebody had obviously moved it often. I had just finished shifting the thing myself when Cybil walked in. She said that she was glad to see me and that everything had gone nuts. Oh, Newsflash! I told her that I thought she had left town and she said the she hadn't been able to get out because the roads had all been blocked and none of the cars were running. She also told me that she had seen a girl out on Bachman Road, heading towards the lake. I asked Cybil if she just let the kid go. How could she do that? It might have been Cheryl! Then Cybil told me that there was nowhere for the girl to go because the road had been destroyed and that it appeared that the girl was walking on thin air.
I asked her if she knew Dahlia Gillespie and told her about the gibberish that the woman had spoken to me of. What is it with this town? The people either don't know anything or, when they do, they speak in goddamn riddles! Then Cybil asked me about the hole in the wall and I told her that I had just discovered it. We decided that, although Cybil's a cop, I would go through first.
When I got to the other end of the tunnel, I found some kind of altar. Is this the 'other church' that Dahlia Crazywoman was talking about? That's when the noise in my head started again, and I woke up back at the hospital with Lisa. So, does that mean that I dreamt going to the antique store and seeing Cybil? What's going on here?
The first thing I noticed was that Lisa didn't look so good. She said she was fine so I asked her if she knew Dahlia. What she said was, "Oh yeah, that crazy Gillespie lady. Supposedly her kid died in a fire and she's been crazy ever since." I asked her if she knew what Dahlia meant by 'The town being devoured by darkness' and Lisa told me a bit about the cult that the whole town used to follow, and the weird accidents that happened when the development started on the town.
When I woke up again, I was back in that strange room at the antique store, but everything was different. I figured that I would run back to the hospital and ask Lisa if there was a way to the lake other than the roads, so I could follow up on Cybil's clue. When I left the antique store, I found that I could only get as far as the Town Center. I entered through a broken door and as I started up the escalator, every one of the TV screens flicked on. Every one showed Cheryl, begging me for help and asking where I was. That broke my heart. My little girl sounded so scared and I couldn't make it better.
I got to the top of the escalator and walked towards a bench next to a jewellery store. As I got nearer, I could see what looked like a demon feasting on something. I walked closer, hoping to get a good shot at the thing, when the bottom dropped out of the world.
When I picked myself up off the ground, I saw that the whole place was covered with sand. That's when the giant worm-thing cruised past me. I ran towards the wall and in a broken show window, I saw a hunting rifle and some ammo. I grabbed them and blasted away at the thing until it curled itself into a ball and I started to look for a way out. I was looking at the door, trying to decide whether or not to waste a shot to break the glass, when the worm uncurled itself, dived into the sand, and then burst through the door. Great, now I have to be grateful to a monster for saving me a couple of bullets.