.. huh.

It's a good point. In fact, Billy tries thinking back on it, and he doesn't think that he's heard Irving talk about the creature back home all that often. Knowing him, he was just dismissing it as a normal bear, refusing to believe that there could be anything more in the world than whatever God put on it.

It's a lot harder to dismiss the Darkwalker as something natural though, he thinks.

"Maybe we will be lucky and the sight of it will change something within him," Billy points out, though it's dry enough that it doesn't seem like he has all that much faith in it. It'd be kind of nice though. It won't change much about Irving's poor personality, but Billy could do without the constant religious talk, thanks. "I do not think a man like Irving would see much here without it breaking something within him. He refused to acknowledge a lot of things about our situation back home as well, after all. I doubt he is ready for the knowledge of a creature like that hunting us down, or people setting things on fire with their mind."