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Chapter 14 - 14

"The fog legend," he repeats slowly.

"Yeah, you know how a lot of people here believe that people who die when it's foggy out are targeted by the fog because they haven't confessed to wronging someone?" you ask.

"I know what the fog legend is," he snaps, waving a dismissive hand. "I just don't know what thoughts you're thinking I might be having about it."

"We're not sure, that's why we're here," you tell him.

"Hold up, I do know you," Barry says as he sits up. "You're that—"

You roll your eyes. "Yeah, yeah, I'm that kid people say killed that other kid."

"Hah! I thought I recognized you." Barry belches and relaxes a little. "That's why you're here, isn't it? People have been talking about the fog again because of Quentin, so that means they're also whispering about that Keller kid and my dad."

"Who's Quentin?" you ask, a sinking feeling hitting you hard in the stomach.

"Quentin Brown. Another lobsterman," he says. "Didn't show up to work the other day when the fog was in. At first people thought he was just being a lazy slob and not showing up because he's done that before, but now no one can find him. Cops are only now taking it seriously because before everyone assumed he was slacking."

"So he went missing when the fog was out?" Addy asks.

"Yep," Barry says. "So you know what people are saying. His boat was even found capsized on the beach." He laughs.

That must have been the boat Anuja hid in when the fog came in, unless multiple boats have capsized lately.

The fog you very well may have summoned.