Crane Stunned By Catastrophic Changes In Sleepy Hollow
Posted by Morgan
Raised on his father’s often animate stories of the wealth, riches, and security to be found in Sleepy Hollow, Icharus Crane’s first foray into the sleepy little village stirs up confusion and a sense that all is not right in the town.
Late Fall, Sleepy Hollow – Twenty-three year old Icharus Crane claims a look of “stricken melancholy” hangs over the once prosperous and lively village of Sleepy Hollow like a pall, with fields and farmhouses alike showing signs of severe neglect and non-use – that he has seen nothing bearing even a slight resemblance to the tales he’d heard from his youth on his first visit to Sleepy Hollow.
Fatted pigs, strutting gobblers, and smug, rounded cattle all are suspiciously missing, and not a single speck of pumpkin orange appears to brighten the morose countryside although his father had often lauded the plump beauty and orange glow of a Van Tassel pumpkin over his own.
Crane is stunned, fearing a “catastrophe of dire proportions” has overtaken the Hollow, and finds it hard to believe that this Sleepy Hollow is the same, almost mystical village from his father’s stories, the place he believes was entirely responsible for changing his father’s life some twenty-five years ago.
Though his first inclination was to retreat, to turn and ride away, shaking the doom and gloom of the once lively and bountiful place from him before he can become possessed by it, Crane says he refuses to let his shock over the now dilapidated appearance of the village deter him from his goal.
Abraham Van Brunt made a promise to his father twenty-five years ago, Crane claims, and he’ll not leave until he’s seen that promise is kept…no matter the cost.