Seth sighed and tugged her back to her seat. He wondered if he was such a mess to deal with at that age which hadn't been so long ago. He sat back down and laid the second folder on the table.<br/><br/>"There is more to the story...this is my own research..." He laid out found newspaper articles from the same paper that had been left for him as clues. There were pictures of the trees marked with circles and X's like Sarah had seen many times in her younger years. "This mark....I find it anywhere I go that I see him...It..has come to define him..this mark was used by the city of Rosswood in the 1600's to mark the trees where the executions would take place...this was probably the last thing he saw before thar cloth went over his face. ..."<br/><br/>He dug through the folder and pulled out a article from a year later, pointing to it. The article read in bold. "Tailor thought to be child abductor and molester found to be innocent". He read the rest of it to her. "The local tailor, Victor Surge, who had been found guilty of the recent abductions and molestations has been found to have been innocent all along. The true criminal? The gardener of the school grounds, blood having been found covering the blades of the man's rakes in his tool shed, consistent with the wounds on the bodies of the children found..."<br/><br/>He looked at her. "the article goes on for a while but it seems some of his other victims who were still living were so afraid of what he might do to them that they lied and pointed their fingers at the local tailor, having come to a decision to do so because of the man's unusual height and eccentricity. They figured who would doubt a crying child's accusations, right?" He then breathed a heavier sigh.<br/><br/>"This...is where Alex comes in.." he placed the picture of "Alex Krailey" back down and then a photo of the executioner and sheriff, "Lawrence Krailey". The photo was of the officer holding victor Surge's arm outside his store: "Slender Suits" . "This man..the man who executed your "Mr. S" or Victor as he was once known, reported seeing a man lurking outside his home a while after the truth had come out....the next morning. His children were missing...all they found was their clothes in a pile at the base of the tree where they'd executed Victor Surge...covered in blood and torn to shreds. Later years there would be more.." He said setting down article after article of the local paper during the late 1600's describing reports of an impossibly tall man in a fine suit with a blank white face lurking and reports of family after family worrying for the minds of their children before the children would simply go missing. He then sighed<br/><br/>"And then suddenly...after one investigation made by Sheriff Krailey directly...the articles suddenly stop..there is never another published story of these attacks though local ledgers..." he said taking out a small stack of very old to rather new police journals that read "Property of the Rosswood Police Department" "Which I obtained...not so legally...continue to document reports of children steadily disappearing well into modern years...stories of that symbol appearing on the sides of houses where children went missing...more and more reports of the Tall man in a suit. Children during the 1600's before they were taken recognized the creature as resembling victor surge aside from a massive size difference and the lack of a face....they began calling him the slender man because of the store he owned....the name stuck..kids have been telling that story for centuries since and still do."<br/><br/>He sighed and handed her a journal with tape over the cover reading "From the personal affects of Officer Lawrence Krailey Cir. 1675" Seth would let her read the man's thoughts as they slowly came undone at the seams.<br/><br/>"<span style="font-style: italic">I see him every night now...the creature I know I killed so many years ago...he haunts me...he already stole my children in punishment what more can he do to me! What more can he take! I believe he is  curse. A curse set upon me and this town for what we have done to him. He won't stop....I don't think he ever will...that is why I have set out to end his existence... will destroy this curse myself if it is the last thing I do on this earth...even if I must hand down this task unto my descendants. My eldest son remains untouched...If I cannot fulfill this task..I will hand it down unto him...If he shall fail he shall hand it down unto hos sons and so on. Until then...word of this creature of mine own making cannot spread...The grand Krailey name cannot be destroyed. We will wipe the papers clean of his story..of the wivestale that children spread in fear of him. He will remain just that...a wives tale. Until he can be extinguished.  We Krailey are men of law. Men of justice. This creature has far exceeded the crimes against...We will bring him to justice...even if the punishment he deals upon this city...is well deserved.</span>