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It's almost ready, Timber said. The article in the LA Times,

the one that's going to lay this all out, tell the whole story to the world.

But I need a bit more time, she said. I need to make sure every part of it is verified.

I understand, I said. I did. I had waited this long, what was another day, a week, or a year?

What was a lifetime? Will they low, I said? Will wait.

For three nights, we got off the grid. Afterward, things were different between us.

I'm still not sure what happened at that motel. Can't piece together any part of it.

I don't know, Keisha's half, and I definitely don't understand what I saw.

But we were different after the motel. I don't think the rest of this road trip would have happened

as it did without those three nights.

Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jessica Nicole and Erica Livingston,

produced by Dispiration, Part 3, Chapter 4, Three Nights at the Old Motel.

Every minute we were visible to the public was a liability. Each passer by a possible member

of Bay and Creek. And who knew what forms this will could take that we hadn't discovered yet?

So we found the triumphant Tiki Inn on a highway that had been emptied by a nearby interstate bypass.

The motel reminded me of one I had seen in a town called Charloton, but I shook that off.

This was not Charloton. It looked like no human had set foot on the motel grounds in at least two

decades. And so we pulled the truck into the lot out back, unpacked the supplies we had stocked up with,

and prepared to wait a while.

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