The boy returned with two old men and pointed his finger at Howard and said "There's the outsider!"
Howard stood there and tried to figure out what was going on as the men approached. "Are you here alone?" One man asked Howard. Howard just nodded his head and said "I really need to get going."
The two men looked at each other as if communicationg somehow, then looked at Howard and the first man said "You look tired." then he put his hand on Howards arm. Howard looked down to see that the man was placing a crystal against his skin and a sharp pain shot from that point straight up his arm and seemed to fill his body.
Everything seemed to go grey and Howard went numb. He couldn't talk or move.
The boy blurted out something that Howard didn't understand but Howard heard the men answer the boy with
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