Page 62 of Possessed By Shadows

“Okay. I’m sold. Sign me up. But I gotta find my brother.”

“Yes,” she agreed. “We’ll work on teaching you to use it rather than it using you.”

Somehow, I didn’t think it was that easy, but I was planning on jumping in with both feet. “That was real? You saw the dark things too?” I wasn’t crazy.

“Sensed them.”

Real. Some sort of overwhelming darkness was inside of me?

“It’s in us all, in varied levels,” she added.

“But how many can make it rise like that?” I wondered. She didn’t answer, which was answer enough. I was a special snowflake alright. Fuck my life.