I've been told I'm bad at foreshadowing. Episode 8 has a bookstore. We meet John Demo. You've been warned.
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Prompt: "An Opportunity Not Yet Past
----Bug's Song-----
Title: What Happened To John
Challenge: TRUE CRIME
It's not productive to compare all our troubles
playin "who's got it worse' to one-up one another
Its half a dozen of one, and its six of the other
you don't want to win this game
But the unspoken rule's now the talk of the town
the difficult truth no one dare say aloud
we all know who and we all know how
but no one wants to say
cause Marty lost his job last month
and Tom's wife ain't been home too much
we all have troubles but I'll tell you what
It's a shame what happened to John
Mrs. Carter, well I haven't seen you out of your apartment in a couple of days
she says my husband is halfway into handcuffs with no more hope of changing his ways
I'm pinching pennies, never spending any 'cause I'll have to bail him out or bury him soon
but when I go to church he isn't worth my focus as I bow my head and sit in the pews
I'm praying for another and I'm hopin He'll respond
its a shame what happened to John
And Connor's cough keeps getting worse
and Olli's luck has all reversed
we all have troubles that could be much worse
It's a shame what happened to John
We don't report it to the papers or go to the police
there's an unacknowledged understanding passing in the streets
the entire city's sick but have learned to be discreet
that's all that can be done
There were never conversations or plans of how to act
we didn't draft a non-disclosure or attempt to make a pact
there was a problem, we solved it, there's no more going back
the problem's finally gone
And Miley's finally out of bed
and Faith feels safe to walk again
we don't have trouble when we all pretend
It's a shame what happened to John
---- Matt's Song -----
Title: The First of the Everkings To Die
Challenge: Foreshadowing!
i met a man travelling from the north passing through my part of town
he wore a tattered overcoat, flapping open in the warm north wind, still carrying his service rifle
hitched underneath his arm
though the barrel was rusted and the stock had near completely decomposed
i didn't say a word, no point asking these guys anything
they've got enough on their plates from having nothing on their plates
but i offered him some food i had either going spare or going bad
and he thanked me with a nod and he kept on walking south
they're always walking south
don't know what they hope to find down there
four other northman came passing through my part of town
stacks of skin and castoff bones in those coats like rotten pelts
I gave them what I had, but this time one of them stuck around
Said the situations worsening faster than the snow can melt
He asked me what I did down here, I said I was a writer
At the very least I try to, but - he looked away he didn't care
He sat down right there in my garden, sunflowers in winter
And he told me what to tell you, and he left
they're always walking south
don't know what they hope to find down there
He says it's going to happen soon, sooner than you think
You'll see the symbols early but you won't know they mean
And the daydreams that you've come rest your head upon at night
Are like the permafrost, the first one of the Everkings to die
But there's time, he says, there are chances easy missed
There are lessons needing learned before the class has chance to sit
And if you really pay attention, really take the whole thing
You might just see where this is heading before the ending begins
they're always walking south
don't know what they hope to find down there
