"The fear of It took him, in the end," Eddie answers. He chews on his lower lip for a time, turning over his thoughts into something coherent before he elaborates.

"It could take any shape that It wanted to, and It knew what made us most afraid. It wanted us afraid before It ate us, said fear made children taste better. A lot of children died that summer, including Bill's little brother Georgie. That's why Bill wanted to fight, and needed help from all of his friends.

"Each of us had a story about It hunting us. Some nightmare vision made real. Ben saw his dead father before the vision changed and became a waterlogged corpse. Stanley was stalked by a mummy and had to be saved by Bill. A l-leper chased me, and Pennywise the Dancing Clown attacked me in the public shower at school." Eddie takes a deep breath. "We did manage to hurt It, and stop the slaughter that year. We made a promise to return if It wasn't truly dead... but Stan... Stan killed himself rather than face It again."