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But to believe is not always to obey. The things the Darkness tells them cannot be interpreted on this plane. The Darkness is demented, it’s a savage god, a mad god.
The green was awful, beautiful, so many shades that it was unfair to call them all by the same name.
If he abandoned his son, Gaspar would grow into a furious and silent man, but the world is full of men like that.
Gaspar walked on tiptoe along the catwalk. Around them, everything was lush and fearsome: the trees that dipped into the water, the dark jungle in the distance, the huge, swift-flowing river.
She always attended the Ceremonial. She went for Juan’s sake, but also because the thing that came with the night was divine, though she was sure it wasn’t sacred.
“Ghosts are real. And the ones who come aren’t always the one you’ve called.”
The doctor was still talking and now Gaspar did start to listen, because it was better to know, it was always better to know.
Suddenly he heard hammering that quickly grew into a fusillade: the storm had finally burst and it was hailing, a summer storm so intense that through the hospital’s open front door they could see tree branches fly by, swept up by the wind as though sucked by a giant mouth.
You have something of mine, I passed on something of me to you, and hopefully it isn’t cursed, I don’t know if I can leave you something that isn’t dirty, that isn’t dark, our share of night.
He couldn’t understand what his father was saying, and that was what disturbed him the most in the dream, because it seemed important.
The feeling that something horrible was going to happen was very clear, at least for him, but he acquiesced, he went along. The house had sought them out and now it had them, in its hands, in its claws.
My mother says they must be allowed to go because they always come back, they come crying back, all beaten down, because the Darkness is a god with claws that sniffs you out, the Darkness catches up with you, the Darkness will let you play, the way a cat lets go of its prey just to see how far it can get.
