No, that was not true. He had caught hints of it in others, in men and women who were—and this, too, was easier to deny in daylight than darkness—infested by entities, by supernatural agencies. They had an otherness to them, and he had caught a hint of that same essence in his own daughter as she caused the death of Earl Steiger. There: it was said. It was what he believed. His daughter was not what she appeared to be. She was carrying something inside her of which she might not even be aware.
