The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)

by Stephen King

the Turtle—he was an important

Is this the turtle from IT?

That was when it happened; that was when he split down the middle and became two boys. One lay dying in the street. The other stood here on the corner, watching in dumb, stricken amazement as DONT WALK turned to WALK again and people began to cross around him just as if nothing had happened . . . as, indeed, nothing had.