And so here you are, on a twisting road in your mind, staring into the eyes of my terrible dream. You stand, metaphorically, on the coast road leading inevitably into Ohto County. And so Welcome aboard. If you ended up here by accident, then I recommend that you walk away and don’t look back. This isn’t the place for you. And you are better off learning no more. The more you learn, the more you will find yourself trapped by you knowledge, as I was before you. If you have content with a normal life, walk away. Once Ohto County has you, it will always have you. You will walk its woods and gnarled orchards in your mind a thousand times over. You will hear the whispers from the standing stones as you sleep. You will see the lighthouse and the strange figures moving out in the sea when you close your eyes. Once the idea of Ohto County gets into your brain, you will become a part of its story.
And from there, you have no escape.
I know, that like the person in a horror film who warns the kids not to venture out to the cabin in the woods, that you are likely to ignore me. And I expect you must know that to a certain extent I am counting on that, but the warning is an honest one. If you step down this road and honestly investigate what is at the end of it, your world will be transformed. And you may not like the form it takes.

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