"The Twilight "The Hitchhiker"" "Team The Twilight Br:" "Semideus69, Roland Deschain" "Thanks to Maurice that helps a lot with team progress." "There is a fifth dimension addition to those known to man." "It is a dimension as vast as space and as devoid of long as infinity." "It is the middle ground between light and shadow." "Between science and superstition." "E lies between the pit of man fears" "And the summit of his knowledge." "Is the fantasy dimension." "A region that can be considered..." "the twilight zone." "His name is Nan Adams." "She is 27 years old." "Your occupation:" "Buyer in a department store in New York." "In the present:" "On holiday traveling across the country to Los Angeles, California." "Manhattan Coming." "How fast was, lass?" "The 100 or 105 per hour or so." "The punctured tire, the car skidded, went off the road going 105 per hour..." "Lady, you are protected by angels." "I really should not be called a mechanical , someone should call a hearse." "Follow me to the city." "I'll see if I can get you a new tire." "Thank you." "A slight accident on highway 11 Pennsylvania." "Perhaps to be remembered as one of accidents you could not care less." "But from that moment, the Nan Adams partner on their journey to California" "Will terror." "Your path will be fear." "And your destination and unknown." "$ 5 per call, $ 22.10 for the tire." "Tax, $ 2.60." "The total is $ 29.70." "Cheaper than a funeral, right?" "Believe me, miss." "Here you go, girl." "Exchange for his two $ 20." "I checked the other tires for you." "They look good." "Something wrong?" "No" "Not Nothing's wrong." "I just was looking at that hitchhiker." "What hitchhiker?" "He's gone now." "I think I must have got ride." "Probably." "Funny, I saw him a little while you were changing the tire." "Probably hitched a ride soon as we pass him." "Probably." "Thank you for all your help." "'s All right, girl." "Have a good and safe trip." "Thank you." "I saw him again 80 km ahead." "And again in a long and narrow straight road to Virginia." "Just standing there." "Nothing threatening indeed." "A dull subject, a little quiet." "Just a scarecrow with ragged fool's face." "I should not even think about it but, are the coincidences that all..." "The fact wherever I go, there it is." "Where do you want me to stop, I see." "No matter how far I travel or how fast I go, he's in front of me." "I'm on a highway express now." "I do not know why, but I'm scared." "A fear that is as vague as its source." "Maybe it's not really a fear." "It's more like a feeling of unease." "A feeling that things are a little wrong." "Is vague because it is exactly hitchhiker what that is." "It is vague." "I wonder why is he is always there." "I wonder why I can not shake him." "You have many hitchhikers here?" "Hitchhikers?" "Here?" "Rare?" "There could be more rare." "The guy has to be a fool to hitchhike on an express highway." "Look at this, endless kilometers of straight and virtually no speed limit" "Now, that car would stop to pick up a guy those conditions?" "Would you stop?" "No, I would not stop." "The guy can even get a ride before entering the expressed." "You know, maybe at some toll or whatever, but still would be a very long journey." "Most would not take some guy for such a long journey." "And, you know, it is a very lonely place this one." "Plains, mountains, that sort of thing." "You do not see anyone hitchhiking, right?" "No I have not seen anyone like that." "I was just thinking, that's all." "What's wrong, girl?" "I do not know, I..." "I was just thinking..." "I was just thinking how it would be nice to stop driving." "You're getting..." "I hate that car!" "Will have to wait a little girl." "Construction on." "Okay." "Go west?" "No" "I'm not going to the west." "I'm sorry." "I'm not going to the west." "I'm going in a different direction!" "Hey, girl!" "Where are going?" "Iron Crossing." "Now the fear is no longer vacant." "Terror is not formless." "He has a way." "He was gesturing to me." "That gray skinny in a cheap suit and tattered ." "He was gesturing to me." "He wanted me to stay on track." "He wanted me to die." "I know that now." "I do not know what to do now." "I do not know if I should give back, and back to New York or move on." "Aggressive thoughts haunt my mind." "Ugly and frightened thoughts." "Projections of tomorrow and after tomorrow." "Driving across the plains." "Digirindo through the desert." "Indescribably and apavoradamente alone." "And I know I'll see him." "The'll see the deviations and in levels of passages." "Will be watching me at the traffic lights." "I do not know what to do now." "I do not know what to do." "I just do not know what to do." "Do three days and three nights driving." "I spent Tennessee to Arkansas." "Three days and three nights." "Stop to eat and then drive..." "Stop to eat and then drive..." "Stop to eat and the routine continues." "Cities pass without names." "Landscapes formless." "Now it is not even a trip is a flight." "Route 80 is no longer a highway." "Is an escape route." "Then I move on." "Aware only of one thing." "I have to get where I am going and not let that hitchhiker approach." "On the fourth day, in the middle of way to New Mexico." "I took an alternative road, hoping to outwit the hitchhiker." "At 11 pm, the engine stopped." "And I sat there in the front seat..." "Refrigerated fear." "No gasoline." "Gasoline" " Food Just across" "Please someone!" "Please, somebody help me!" "Yes?" "What is it?" "What you want?" "I'm out of gas." "My car is on the road, to some 450m or so." "Well, back in the morning and arrumaremos for you." "Please, I can not stay here all night ." "I need gas." "Lady, may have past midnight." "Arrecém spent eleven." "Well, here we close at nine." "Please." "I need gasoline." "I can not get there alone." "There is a looking man very suspicious there." "What about this man?" "What was he doing?" "Nothing." "He just sits there on foot." "I see this man all the time, but it just sits there, it does nothing." "This is no reason to wake a man in the middle of your sleep." "I think he's trying to rob me." "Well, if it is, then go back here and I'll call the sheriff." "No, please, help me." "Please." "Lady?" "Yes, that's what I am." "I am a lady." "What makes the street at this hour?" "You work here?" "Live here?" "No" "I was out of gas." "I'm right on the road, but this man does not want to sell me gasoline." "I saw your car. know, you leave the keys in it." "Live around here?" "No, no." "I am returning from leave." "Where are you going?" "Back to my ship." "San Diego is where it is." "It's where I'm going." "San Diego." "Want a ride?" "Are you kidding?" "No, I'm not kidding." "I'll take you to San Diego." "Want to come along?" "Lady, do not have to ask twice." "You won a hitchhiker." "But I have nothing gasoline." "Let's settle this." "Tried the people here?" "The man in bed." "Well, let's get him out of bed." "Hey, Uncle!" "Do you have a customer out here!" "Do you mind if I take off my shoes?" "My feet look like two hot bricks." " No, go ahead!" " Thank you." "You know, I keep thinking I'll wake or something." "In the middle of the night, no cars, no nothing ." "And who do I find?" "A lady who looks a movie star." "When I count to vessel personnel... know what the chances of at least a guy believe me?" "I asked, you know what the chances of at least one face believe me?" "I'll write a testimonial..." "can arrange a notary to sign." "You ask a lot of ride?" "Well, when I enter and leave the license." "It's hard in this free country." "Trucks are beauty, they give ride." "But there are problems with cars." "You know, most people in cars do not give rides at night." "I think not." "I bet if you had a good acceleration and a fast car..." "Could go faster than places, say, someone else in another car." "I think so." "Well..." "Take me as an example, let's say I'm driving across the country and a speed of... 105 Km per hour." "Could not someone like you, standing on the road, waiting for a ride," "Always in front of me across town, and take a ride by car going to a 105 or 110 per hour?" "Could?" "Can be." "Maybe you can, maybe not..." "What's the difference?" "No difference, really." "It's just a silly idea I had here, sitting in the car." "Is..." "But I think it's a good way to pass the time, right?" " What's going on?" "What's the problem?" " You saw this man?" " Who?" " You should have seen him." " Stopped on the road." " Honey, I do not see anyone." "There was nothing there." "What is trying to do?" "In taking the road?" "A man thin and gray type?" "I have not seen anyone." "Lady, you must be exhausted or whatever." "I did not see anyone, anything." "I saw him." "Look, lady." "Maybe let me drive, huh?" "You need to have it seen that hour!" "I have not seen anyone." "What were you trying to do?" " Trying to run him over!" " What?" "Yes, I was trying to run him over." "I thought perhaps killing him, I would stop." "Where are you going?" "No particular place." "Just out of sight." "I'm going anywhere put me away from this car." "Please do not go." "I do not know what came over me." "Do not go." "Look, honey." "I would like to go back to my whole ship..." "And ride with you is a good guarantee that I will ever get!" "Please do not go." "I promise I'll driving more carefully now." "I promise you." "I'm sorry, lady, I'm sorry." "But you'll have to excuse me..." "You can not go!" "Understand?" "You just can not go." "I'll take you to San Diego." "Take you straight to the hangar." "I promise." "Thank you." "But no." "Thank you." "Look, I like you." "I really like you." "So I gave you a ride, because I liked you." "I thought we could be friends." "I would like to take me out." "Seriously." "Please?" "I'm sorry, ma'am." "No, please!" "Please, look, I know you think I'm crazy ." "But I've been seeing this man." "He has followed me all over the country." "And if you can just help me," "Just stay with me until I reaches the coast." "Please do not go!" "Please?" "Give me my shoes." "Listen, sweetheart." "What need is a good night's sleep." "You do not need a boyfriend." "Just a good night's sleep." "See you around!" "Not!" "Do not go!" "Do not go!" "Now I'm in front of a restaurant near Tucson." "There's a phone booth out here and I call home." "There to New York." "I'll call my mother, so I can talk to someone you know." "Someone I love." "Someone who bring back reality for me." "Only a voice." "A warm, familiar voice ... so I will not be mad." "Operator, I would like to make a call to my home in New York." "My name is Nan Adams." "The number phone is Trafalgar 41098." "Hello, Mom?" "This is the residence of Mrs. Adams.." "Who you want to talk, please?" "Who is it?" "I am Mrs. Whitney.." "Mrs. Whitney.?" "I know of no Mrs. Whitney." "This is the Trafalgar 41098?" "Yes it is." "Where is my mother, where Mrs. Adams.?" "Still in the hospital." "Nervous crisis." "Nervous Crisis?" "But there is nothing wrong with my mother." "What do you mean with nervous breakdown?" "Well, it all happened since the death of his daughter." "The death of your daughter?" "What do you mean with the death of your daughter?" "Who is it?" "What number is this?" "It was all very suddenly." "Nan died at just six days ago in a car crash in Pennsylvania." "A tire burst and the car desgovernou." "Very strange." "Now I do not feel scared." "I'm numb." "I feel nothing." "It is as if someone had pulled some sort of plug me, and all..." "Emotion, feeling, fear... vanished." "And now I'm a cold shell." "I am aware of what is around me now." "A wide night of Arizona." "Stars looking down the dark." "Before me stretched for thousands of kilometers of empty plateaus, mountains, plains, desert." "Somewhere in between, he is waiting for me." "Somewhere I will find out who he is." "I'll find out..." "I'll find out what he wants." "But now... the primera vez... gazing at night..." "I think I know." "I think I know." "I believe you go to the same direction as me." "Nan Adams, 27." "She was driving to California." "For Los Angeles." "She did not come." "There was a deviation..." "Beyond Imagination."