<P> Patrick appears in Insomnia as a promising child artist, then again at the end of the Dark Tower series as a young adult artist with enough talent to shape the real world as he sees fit . As a young boy, he was prophesied to save two men in the future . He drew pictures of Roland and the roses as well . In the Dark Tower series, he was kept imprisoned for an unknown amount of time by the psychic vampire Dandelo and was rescued by Susannah and Roland . Patrick draws a door that allows Susannah to enter a parallel world, and later draws and erases a picture of the Crimson King, causing him to disappear from the Tower so that Roland can safely enter it . </P> <P> "Aunt" Talitha Unwin is a resident of River Crossing, near the city of Lud . When Roland Deschain came to River Crossing, she was 105 years old . She and the people of River Crossing provided food and shelter for the ka - tet while they were on their way to Lud . Talitha gave her cross to Roland to lay at the base of the Dark Tower . It was given to John Cullum to act as a sigul and was later returned to Roland by Moses Carver . </P> <P> When Roland came to the Dark Tower, Talitha Unwin was one of the names that he called out and he remembered to place her cross at its base . </P> <P> Teacher of Roland's original ka - tet . Roland earned his guns by defeating him with the hawk David, who was mortally wounded in that battle . After Roland's challenge, Cort laid in his cabin for a week in a coma, being tended by two nurses . Cort was often rough handed with his students, using physical punishment and denial of food to punish mistakes . He also fancied calling the prospective gunslingers "maggots". According to Roland, he is murdered soon after Roland's class graduates . He acts as a sort of a spiritual guide to Roland throughout the series, his voice and teachings popping up in the Gunslinger's mind every so often as Roland needs to reflect upon his training . </P>

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