Nora saw the comments below the video, which someone had uploaded on YouTube. Someone wondered whether visitors might come if word spread online. Someone else joked about bringing back the dawn walks. The carelessness of it turned her stomach. It only deepened her need to prove the whole thing was either fake or ordinary.
Nora realized her need to keep digging into the Serpent Line. She scoffed at any explanations that relied on superstition or horror, of course. But she wanted to kill the myths properly this time. Her goal was to strip it of mystery, expose the trick or mistake beneath it, and deny the village one more chance to profit from her father’s demise.