“One last question: how’d you know I’d be here?”
“What do you mean?”
“There’s nothing for miles around. You were obviously camped out here waiting for something.”
“Oh. I wasn’t waiting for you in particular, if that’s what you mean.”
“What do you mean ‘in particular’?”
“Well, it’s tradition, see? If you’ve got a problem you can’t solve any other way, wait at a crossroads, and someone who can help will be along soon enough.”
“A cross…? Wait a minute – were you trying to make a deal with the Devil?”
“And a very good deal it was, too.”
“I’m not the Devil!”
“So say they all, ma’am. So say they all.”























