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Three toffee apples on the path into the woods. It's always three no matter what happens or what he does to change things, on this day there are always three toffee apples on the path.
Gideon found comfort in it. One is half eaten, two are whole. Dropped by a group of drunken teenagers on their way home from their first Halloween party. One of them will die in a car crash in two years, Gideon cannot save him, he did once, and he went on to kill three women.
The two others will become politicians whose careers come to an abrupt end due to a corruption scandal. But tonight they are three drunk teenagers and he's a killer. He will kill tonight like has this night many times.