Necroscope 008 - Vampire World 03 - Bloodwars by Brian Lumley

Author:Brian Lumley
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-06-25T20:43:24+00:00

thoughts of others for what they were, no longer as the vague static or mental interference which he had known as a child. His telepathy and his deadspeak (different talents yet plainly analogous) had always been present in him but undeveloped through lack of practice, or lack of sympathetic minds on whom to practise. The dead wouldn’t speak to him, and apart from ‘his’ wolves, he had known no telepathic contact — or perhaps some, but only with Nestor, which was not an uncommon phenomenon between Szgany kith and kin.

In his travels, however, the ‘nomadic’ Thyre had opened up both of these esoteric channels to him, and in Ben Trask’s parallel world he had finally used his talent to befriend the teeming dead in a way superior to all his expectations in Sunside. For as far as Nathan was aware — and with the exception of the Thyre, of course - the Great Majority of his own world had not changed in their attitude: desiring no truck with him at all, they continued to shun him. Wherefore these communications he intercepted now, since they were not Thyre sendings and could not be Szgany deadspeak, were telepathic.

But to speak mind-to-mind with such as these! It resolved a question of old concern whose answer, while it had been made apparent in Trask’s world, was one that might only be verified here. And this communication was that verification.

It was something that Nathan had always questioned, while in his heart knowing that it was true: his weird ‘relationship’ with certain members of the grey brotherhood, the wild children of the night, the wolves who inhabited Sunside/Starside’s barrier mountains. But a relationship in the true and fullest sense of the word, as was now apparent. For Nathan’s older brother - not Nestor ‘Kiklu’ or whatever he called himself now, no, but a blood brother nevertheless, a true son of Harry Keogh and a woman of his Earth - had been The Dweller himself! And The Dweller had been a werewolf!

Even as Nathan slept on, the last pieces of an old puzzle

began slotting themselves into place in his metaphysical mind. The reason his wolves had always called him ‘uncle’. Surely it was as they themselves had often declared it to be: because he was their uncle! The reason why he’d always been aware of them as other than ‘just wolves’, and had exercised some power over them (and they over him): because they were of one origin with him, one blood. The reason why they had always seemed to watch over him as best they could: because ‘their father would have wished it’, even as they’d tried to tell him, upon a time!

And sleeping still, he remembered something else they had tried to tell him, which thrilled him to his very core! For he knew now that he was not the only Necroscope: what Harry Keogh had passed down to him, and in a yet more morbid manifestation to Nestor, had also been passed to Nathan’s nephew wolves.

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