mike and will had just fought. you’d been at your house while the boys played d&d but when you got an urgent walkie talkie message from mike you rushed over. will had left in the pouring rain and now you were looking for him in the woods behind his house.

“will?” you called, shining your flashlight through the woods.

you heard noises—banging and soft crying coming from one part of the woods: where castle byers was situated.