The truth was, Freddy had left more than a few things out when he told Dilah the story. For one, Old Black Billy wore sunglasses so dark Freddy thought the man might’ve been blind. When Freddy looked at the sunglasses, he thought he could see through that dark to the man’s eyes, which weren’t eyes at all but black pits, bottomless. Freddy kept looking at those sunglasses, waiting for the light to catch them the right way, but the sun always kept clear of that part of Billy’s face. But that detail wasn’t particularly important.
