Wow, Shayne. That story that Marcus told Lois and Clark about his wife was truly horrible. (And like Lois, I was at least a bit impressed by how calmly and non-challengingly Clark asked his questions and listened to Marcus. Then again, believe me... if a town of thirty thousand had just been swallowed up by the earth here in Sweden, and a hundred murdered monks in medieval getups had been found outside the rim of the crater with a woman's fingernail lodged in their eyeballs... well, I wouldn't have been quite my usual skeptical self if I had been told about this, believe me. I'm always interested in amazing things that have really happened! And because so much horror and weirdness has really happened here, I think Clark has a good reason to take Marcus seriously - besides, the Cortez family may have told him something to make him even more willing to believe... And as for Lois, I think that with the strange "change" happening to her and with all the other weirdness she has seen, she shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss Marcus's story and look for a more mundane explanation instead.
Personally, I dismiss the supernatural because I find it so hard to reconcile it with the scientific world view that I believe in. But hey, if something like what we see in this story had happened in real life, believe me, I would have wanted to know about it! And I would have been
very impressed. It's not impossible to turn me into a believer in trolls and things that go bump in the night, as long as someone will just show me the things that the trolls and the bumpy things have actually done, that no one in the "ordinary" world could have done instead, and that people can't just have imagined. Like I said, I need to be shown the "footprints" of the occult, and they'd better be good and deep ones. But if these things are there, why keep them from me? How can I and skeptics like me see the error of our ways, if governments and adherents of the supernatural hush things like Sunnydale up and refuse to show us the power of things diabolical?
Anyway, one more thing about Marcus, who lives in a fictional world where vampires and demons are most certainly real... I was moved by the fact that he wouldn't move far away form Sunnydale, because he wanted to do whatever he could to free his wife from the demon that possessed her and help her find peace after death. I hope he succeeds. Maybe Lois can help him?
Her dreams were troubled, filled with monsters, men in armor fighting, people dying. Always in the center, there was a girl. As the times changed, so did her face, but somehow, it was always the same girl. Whether she wore a hoop skirt, a loincloth or dressed in medieval armor, she was always the focus of evil.
Gaaaah. Creepy. Will Lois come fact to face with this queen of darkness before this tale is over?
Jimmy found more than thirty stories of freakish feats of strength by young girls and women; all dated May 20, 2003.”
“The day Sunnydale collapsed.”
Oh! Wowzers! Imagine, Supergirls popping up everywhere!
“There were older stories,” Lois said, “But most of them tended to be about a mysterious man saving people from train wrecks, burning cars and boat accidents. They date back for the past eight years, but I don't think they really apply here.”
“I'm sure you're right,” Clark said.
Lois thought Clark paled a little, but she wasn't sure.
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