ATDTDA (5.1) - The Etienne-Louis Malus

[bekah]

At 8:46 AM +0000 3/22/07, Carvill John wrote:
>Here's something else: we're told that on the night in question, 
>when the creature 'escaped' and the disaster began, Hunter was 
>already on his way out of town. So, since he arrived on the same 
>boat as the Figure, he can't have stayed very long in New York (if 
>it is NY). So why the early departure? Nothing to see in the big 
>city? Or maybe a premonition of what might happen?


Quite possibly he did suspect something,  after all,  he was a 
"trustworthy native,"  tagging along and likely aware on some level 
that what they had on board was "the curse of the great silent 
struggle which was the ground for the history of this place..." 
(pgs 128-9)

Fleetwood also heads out of town, on his way to Washington.

Bekah