At the Confluence

Hollis Pride has just drowned in the rapids fishing, right below Harpers Ferry, West Virginia where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers meet. As he watches the police pull his body from the rocks, a girl on the muddy riverbanks touches his arm and brings him to meet her dying grandmother; a woman who needs his eyes to see what death will be like, considering she's too afraid to look. Hollis obliges, giving her his eyes; in return, he's handed a candle, one that guides him as he makes his way ...