onths
s seemed to have grown back into normal size as ghost whores used to rape him every night. He was miserable and worn out, th
omed to life in Eretheon City. He had learned how to
ed in a second-hand bookstore run by a near-blind woman who spoke to her dead husband every morning. (Well, even her daughter was
ding black ink that he had seen once before
A warning? A memo
ld unra
d breath on his neck that smelled like roses and sulfur. Silence prevailed. Darkness ruled. And again he
-
red light,Velvet curtains, Oil la
ral. Antique dolls sat beside ritual daggers, a gramophone
rward, disorie
aughter. Soft. Fe
orner and sto
live and healthy. Her skin glowing flawle
golden glow. She was alive, and watching him like a sp
love," s
pping the nearest shelf. "No. No,
musement. "Did you? Maybe you sa
. this is some t
he died screaming. I watched her from the inside as he
ent of jasmine and iron fille
like a curse t
. Curtains turned to human skin that dripped with fresh blood. T
king slow circles around him. "You look
dam rasped.
r his shoulders, like cold and fire at once. "You were never just a man, Adam. You
r. "You have a demon inside yo
away. "You
u. Then I realised there's nothing worth prote
ed exactly like the night they first made love. The sheets, the scen
the bed. "And I found him. Vaelr. The hu
souls being sucked through their skin, their eyes going blind with pleasure and terror as they cumm
on a throne of writhing bodies, his eyes glowing, crowned in flame, worshipped. Elizab
said. "Why run from what
was a ritual.Power surged through Adam's spine, and inside his soul, something woke. A d
turned, and Adam found himself on a cracked pavement in the city's outer suburbs. The sulphurous sky hissed with rain and the
dam. Inside him, the de
ith smiled at Adam as his c