A few days later at Midnight Pawn, Fiji explains to Bobo that she'd seen the newcomer Manfred, before, from a newspaper, from Peoples magazine, she said, he was supposedly a psychic, and a real one at that.

In which he learned everything about being a psychic from his grandmother. Manfred Bernardo, a.k.a the newcomer has restarted his psychic business, “Bernardo, Psychic and Seer.” Joe Strong soon spot the two moving the newcomer's stuff, and offers assistance as well, the newcomer quickly discovers that it's small town, with a smaller population. Bobo welcomes the new tenant as he unloads his belongings off the U-haul truck, offering a helping hand. The town is excited to learn of the newcomer, everyone except Rev. Midnight Pawn, the oldest and largest occupied building in Midnight, some time ago it was bought by Bobo, who also had also purchased the house next door with the intent to rent it out for extra cash, however, years went by and no one did. Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). There’s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road.

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