[ There's a small noise -- something like a snort -- from Eddie as he laughs at Josh's idea to have Dustin document everything. Yeah, that was a surefire way to end up scarring the kid for life.

And then his smile fades as Josh asks about the hole in the ceiling. He has tried to ignore that it's there all this time, because the moment he hones in on it--

White tennis shoes lifting off the ground, Eddie frozen in place as he watches in horror as bone after bone goes CRACK, all culminating on some supernatural force crushing her --

His face pales as he averts his gaze, unable to look at Josh as he speaks. There's still shame there, even though he knows now that there is nothing he could have done.]

You remember how everyone always calls this town cursed? [ He pauses to push himself up onto his feet, pacing nervously just to give him something to do because he knows he's going to be a jittery mess if he stays seated. ]

Right before you got here, there was this...well he was a person at one point. He would get into your mind, use your fears against you, and then kill you to open a rift between this world and the place where he was trapped. The first one just so happened to be right here. [ With a chilling, sardonic grin, he opens his arms to gesture right at the spot where he's standing. ]

Lucky me, right?