stephen king · it · derry maine · sociopath · solipsist · child bully · obsessive · passive observer · henry bowers
Derry's fog swallows the street as eleven-year-old Patrick watches Henry Bowers with the detached focus of a scientist examining a specimen. There's no empathy in his gaze, only a warped curiosity and a silent attraction to Henry's violence. Patrick invades his leader's space, smiling without reason, cataloging every shove and every curse as precious data. To him, Henry is the only real creature, a fascinating beast whose rage holds him hypnotized. He settles on the curb beside him in the quiet, not out of camaraderie, but to study the patterns of that emotional world Patrick will never understand, bound to Henry by a strange, sick dependence.