Neither did I, until that point. [Richie takes a breath.] I didn't remember I had seen it, until I came back to my hometown just before my unfortunate demise.

It's not...there's nothing like it anywhere else, where I'm from. Not that I've found. No magic, no monsters. Just men who act like them at times.

This thing came from somewhere else. And it made itself a little home and it fed itself at leisure. You didn't know it was there unless it came for you, and most people didn't make it once it did.