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As his grandfather lies there on his deathbed, he told him about a terrible crime that he committed many years ago and got away with. He also tells him that his freedom was the result of a spell he performed and that you should expect a visit from a dark man. "He will come out of the shadows," were his final words.

He lay in bed that night wondering if this supposed ‘DarkMan’ was real and when he would come, his grandfather was just playing a joke on him wasn’t he? But then again he thought how his grandfather could come up with something like that and he has only told him funny jokes before. “Tom come quick” ,his Mum cried up the stairs, He sprinted down the stairs eager to see what his Mum had for him. When he reached the bottom of the
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“Tommy Boy”, whispered a voice “Who’s there?”, Tom replied.”Me Tommy Boy”. He stopped and looked around, he was deep in the forest and he didn’t know the way out, he walked on and on hearing screams around him until his father walked up to him but he thought that his father was dead. “Tom come with”, his Father said, “Everyone thought that you were dead”,Tom replied, he was lead by his father to a small cottage and his father told him to wait outside while he went in. His father went into the cottage and everything turned silent and Tom wondered what was happening in the cottage so Tom walked in and saw a man with no face wearing a suit with a bow-tie. But it wasn’t his father it was someone else he told Tom to sit down and have a talk, the man talked about Tom’s grandfather and how he had betrayed him and now he must

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