Chapter 24
Cassadaga, meanwhile, presented a different environment all entirely. Founded as a spiritualist camp in the late 1800s, it housed more psychics in one area than anywhere in the United States. Dirt roads and small publicly maintained roads criss-crossed the small town, hidden away from the well-traveled road. Huge laurel oak trees several decades old stood with Spanish moss dripping from its boughs. It prided in being part of old, sleepy Florida and it resisted change. Barely five miles from the interstate, most commercial maps didn’t list the town nor was there an exit off the interstate that told most travelers the proper exit ramp to take.
Still, even though he liked the change of atmosphere, Eli didn’t like wasting his time. Here he was in a spiritualist camp and he couldn’t find the medium who told him to be at that street when he saw Joshua facing a gun barrel.
His thoughts ended as he heard footsteps behind him and moved to the side.