At that moment, there was a new arrival to the town of Lake Point.
A well-dressed thirty-something man in all white. Unlike the man in black, this man could be seen by all. People who saw him immediately found him to be a bit odd, but soon went back to whatever they were doing, forgetting that he was really even there.
He walked past the "WELCOME TO LAKE POINT, OHIO" sign and entered the town.
Shortly later, he met a woman jogging along the street. She gave him a funny look, then kept on jogging.
"Excuse me, Miss," the man said, causing the jogger to turn around. When she did, she grew a bit younger, her wrinkles fading away, although she apparently didn't notice.
"Yes?" she asked.
He smiled, causing her to smile back. "I was wondering. Do you know the way to the Gibson residence?"
She looked like she didn't know, but then she brightened as the knowledge came to her. How could she not know? She was one of their neighbors. She told him where to go and he thanked her.
When she continued jogging, she had no idea that she had just lost fifteen years of her life, becoming about twenty-six years old. As far as she was concerned, she was supposed to be 26. And as far as she knew, she was supposed to live only two houses down from the Gibsons.
As the now-younger woman jogged away, the man smiled. He knew that for the last fifteen years the woman had made some poor life choices. Taking away those years now gave her a second chance to fix things, even though she no longer remembered what she did wrong. But still ... a second chance was a second chance.
The man turned and headed towards the Gibson house. Isn't wasn't too far away. He usually wouldn't have made contact with a resident of the town, but his memory wasn't as good as it used to be. He needed directions to daughter's house.
Yes, the man in white was Jane Gibson's father, also Jon's grandfather, the one who died. Technically, he really did die, when he took on this new form. But he was still Emmitt Smith, even though he looked like a completely different person, less than half the age as he was before the transformation.
Emmitt checked his watch. He was wasting too much time. The man in black had a huge head start on him and he wasn't going to allow him to destroy Lake Point the way he intended to. So with that, he quickened his pace.
