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moment. “There’s something I want to tell you Kreel.” Charlie fiddled with a few rocks on the ground before going on. “I don’t have a wife to go home to, my sweet June passed away some years ago.”
                  “But you always talked about her when we worked the late shift here at the cemetery. Why didn’t you ever say anything before?” asked Kreel
                  “Awe I don’t know, I guess I was just make believing. It made me feel good to believe she would be there at home waiting for me.” Charlie sniffled and wiped his sleeve across his nose. “It’s a hard thing being lonely Kreel; it’s hard not having anyone in the world.”
                  Kreel felt bad for the way he had been treating the old man. He knew the old man didn’t deserve being turned into what he had become. “You’re not alone Charlie, you have me.”
                  Charlie looked over at Kreel and smiled. “You really mean that, you’re not just fooling?”
                  Kreel smiled and threw his arm around the old man’s shoulder. “You bet I do!”
                  The sun was now beginning to rise off in the distance, just as the tiredness began to come upon them both. Gathering up the powder, Kreel placed it into a small pouch. “Come on Charlie, let’s find a place to rest safely, we have a big night ahead of us when the moon rises.”
                  The two walked off together in the direction of the mausoleum, just as the day began to stir with life.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Seventeen
     
                  Kreel and Charlie awoke with the new moon, each gasping for the breath to fill their lungs that brought life to both of them once again. By the time the moon was full in the sky above, they were both making their way out of the mausoleum and into the night. They had gathered the powders the old woman told them to prepare, taking them; Kreel put them into his shirt pocket, being careful not to breathe any of the potent powder in. The last thing he wanted was for the plan to backfire on them both.
                  “You stay out of the way Charlie, I will handle this. I know you may not mean to, but I don’t want to take any chances of you bumbling things up.”
                  “I would feel better staying out of the way anyways Kreel, that woman scares me.”
                  An owl screeched in the distance as a slight breeze blew through the trees on the boundary of the graveyard, and Kreel knew the time was near. Somewhere out there in the darkness, Maggie was approaching. Then there was the sound that told him he only had a few short moments, and he turned to Charlie grabbing the old man’s arm and spoke in a hushed but stern tone. “I mean it Charlie, no matter what happens I want you to stay hidden. Even if things start to go bad, don’t try to play some hero. I want you to run, run down to the old woman in the swamps if you have to. Don’t stay around here, do you hear me Charlie? I want you to give me your word that you will do as I say, promise me old man!”
                  Charlie hesitated and then nodded his head. “I promise Kreel, I’ll do as you say.”
                 
    Chapter Eighteen
     
                  The sounds of the night came alive with the chirps of crickets, and the animals that scurried through the forest of trees. The moon the old woman had warned them of was now upon them. Kreel’s senses became more alive as he became more aware of the sounds around him. What he was becoming would take over entirely if he could not break the curse that had been placed upon both him and Charlie. Kreel staggered in his step for only a moment as the old man came to his mind. He did not dare turn and look in Charlie’s direction as that would only call danger to the old man’s cover. Kreel knew that the