Anthology - Beyond the Dark by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-20T22:11:03.023000+00:00

But of course, now that Diana had mentioned it, Charis had to fol ow up. "So what did you find out?"

Diana sighed but, resigned, she sat. "I sent some e-mails to people I know. A Wiccan high priestess. A shaman. A medium. The kind of people you never believed in."

Charis had never disbelieved the actual existence of such people, certainly not after the proof of her friend's reality. She'd just never believed they were particularly… sane.

And now she was hungry for anything they could tel her.

Welcome to desperation, she thought.

"Mind you, none of this is scientifical y proven," Diana cautioned. "But apparently the threshold between life and death is a traditional y dangerous place. What you described sounds like an entity which prowls around that threshold, scavenging for any morsels of energy they can get. As food, I mean. See, our thoughts, our feelings, our actions—we're always projecting energy, no matter what we do. And apparently, there are some… things… out there that feed on the more negative flavors. Grief. Anger. Despair. And fear—fear is a big one."

Wel wasn't that convenient? Charis couldn't help but be skeptical. "Why don't they feed on positive energy?"

"The same reason that healthy people are less likely to catch a contagious il ness. People who are joyful and confident tend to be stronger, so parasites have to work harder to get through to them. It's the people who are exhausted by negativity who make easy marks. And apparently there's a particularly nasty kind of entity that targets the newly dead—"

"Like that guy Rick," said Charis.

Then Diana warned, "Or the not-quite-dead."

Like David.

Shaken, Charis reached to her husband and took his hand. Of course, he couldn't squeeze back. His hand was limp in hers. "So… so if this is common, they must have some kind of remedy, right? An exorcism of some kind?"

"Except that it's not common."

"But you just said—"

"They've heard of this, yes, but on battlefields or in concentration camps. Apparently they were common in asylums, before the mental health profession cleaned up its act. This sort of Creature can't exist unless there's the right mixture of suffering and death to draw it and to maintain it over a long period of time. They never heard of one in a modern hospital. Never."

Charis shook her head. "Then why this hospital?"

"That," said Diana, "is what we have to find out. While David stil has the energy to fight this thing off."

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