Landreaux had demons, he said. Demons did not scare Randall, but he respected them. It must have been something that happened to me when I was a kid but I can’t remember, Landreaux said. That’s what everybody thinks, said Randall. Like if you suddenly remember what happened, you kill the demon. But it’s a whole hell of a lot more complicated. Going up against demons was Randall’s work. Loss, dislocation, disease, addiction, and just feeling like the tattered remnants of a people with a complex history. What was in that history? What sort of knowledge? Who had they been? What were they now? Why
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