“Dardan’s rational self wants to believe there is no protector, that it’s only a representation of all his childhood fears. A projection of all the abuse from his father that he’s suffered his entire life. But he knows better. Sometimes you have to believe in the boogeyman.”
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Alma Katsu,
Fiend
“Dardan can deny it all he wants, but Maris knows there’s something bad in their home. Something malevolent. She feels it watching them, greedily.”
―
Alma Katsu,
Fiend