I've been told I'm bad at foreshadowing. Episode 8 has a bookstore. We meet John Demo. You've been warned.

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Prompt: "An Opportunity Not Yet Past

----Bug's Song-----

Title: What Happened To John

Challenge: TRUE CRIME

It's not productive to compare all our troubles

playin "who's got it worse' to one-up one another

Its half a dozen of one, and its six of the other

you don't want to win this game

But the unspoken rule's now the talk of the town

the difficult truth no one dare say aloud

we all know who and we all know how

but no one wants to say

cause Marty lost his job last month

and Tom's wife ain't been home too much

we all have troubles but I'll tell you what

It's a shame what happened to John

Mrs. Carter, well I haven't seen you out of your apartment in a couple of days

she says my husband is halfway into handcuffs with no more hope of changing his ways

I'm pinching pennies, never spending any 'cause I'll have to bail him out or bury him soon

but when I go to church he isn't worth my focus as I bow my head and sit in the pews

I'm praying for another and I'm hopin He'll respond

its a shame what happened to John

And Connor's cough keeps getting worse

and Olli's luck has all reversed

we all have troubles that could be much worse

It's a shame what happened to John

We don't report it to the papers or go to the police

there's an unacknowledged understanding passing in the streets

the entire city's sick but have learned to be discreet

that's all that can be done

There were never conversations or plans of how to act

we didn't draft a non-disclosure or attempt to make a pact

there was a problem, we solved it, there's no more going back

the problem's finally gone

And Miley's finally out of bed

and Faith feels safe to walk again

we don't have trouble when we all pretend

It's a shame what happened to John

---- Matt's Song -----

Title: The First of the Everkings To Die

Challenge: Foreshadowing!

i met a man travelling from the north passing through my part of town

he wore a tattered overcoat, flapping open in the warm north wind, still carrying his service rifle

hitched underneath his arm

though the barrel was rusted and the stock had near completely decomposed

i didn't say a word, no point asking these guys anything

they've got enough on their plates from having nothing on their plates

but i offered him some food i had either going spare or going bad

and he thanked me with a nod and he kept on walking south

they're always walking south

don't know what they hope to find down there

four other northman came passing through my part of town

stacks of skin and castoff bones in those coats like rotten pelts

I gave them what I had, but this time one of them stuck around

Said the situations worsening faster than the snow can melt

He asked me what I did down here, I said I was a writer

At the very least I try to, but - he looked away he didn't care

He sat down right there in my garden, sunflowers in winter

And he told me what to tell you, and he left

they're always walking south

don't know what they hope to find down there

He says it's going to happen soon, sooner than you think

You'll see the symbols early but you won't know they mean

And the daydreams that you've come rest your head upon at night

Are like the permafrost, the first one of the Everkings to die

But there's time, he says, there are chances easy missed

There are lessons needing learned before the class has chance to sit

And if you really pay attention, really take the whole thing

You might just see where this is heading before the ending begins

they're always walking south

don't know what they hope to find down there