Aldous skips happily towards a ramshackle building looming just over a hill. "Well, sure I'm confident," he sputters, "it's just that he'll get awful mad if I bring someone home who tries to exorcise him is all. The Militiaman is just over the hill. I'll race you!" The boy breaks into a sprint approaching the building, but falls halfway there. He breaks into a paroxysm of coughing, shaking uncontrollably and turning red.