Talk:Hitchhiker's Object/@comment-5414293-20140806175310/@comment-25446881-20141106080454

That's exactly what came to my mind the moment I read "Unless you try killing them." and "If you slice their belly open, however, they're different inside.".

My conclusion is this: It may seem as a typical ritual story, and it's written to seem that way, but, in fact, it portrays the compulsion of a mad person. This insane individual is a killer, and he is driven to kill hitchhiker's and open their boddies. He probably chooses those that look alike his first victim, the first hitchhiker he killed. He is dellusional about the bodies beying empty. He probably accidentally ripped his first victim open, but he couldn't handle the sight of the internal organs. His memories of them were repressed and a psychological defense mechanism was put in place, fabricating the false memory. and later the false impression, that they were empty inside, also making the act of killing easier - they have no soul, they have no friends of family, they are nothing, just empty bags containing little treasures. The treasure is probably a trivial obect that the killer takes from his victims and idealizes as a fetish. It's not only a memento for his collection, it's also an unique object, something mystical. His counciousness still fights his urge, but it loses. He blames the hichhiker's themselves for his need to kill. He says he doesn't even mean to drive into those dark rodes, but he finds himself doing so, from time to time. That's because he is driven himself by his compulsion. The only thing left to uncertain is whether the killer was already insane before the first killing, or if it was that very first murder that lead him down that path. (Maybe the first one was in self defense? Or revenge from something awful the hitchhiker had done?)