’ Darleen smiled with pride looking at the tiny infant in the long white christening gown. ‘So if anything happens to me-‘ she gave her best fri...nd ‘the look’. ‘Nothings going to happen to you.’ Darleen stopped her, but saw the worry in her friend’s eyes ‘Stop it Annie, it was just a bad dream.’ she whispered. Antoinette held her frown for a moment before she plastered a smile on her face. She refused to spoil this wonderful event with her anxieties over a dream. But what a dream it was, a. The Other is a daemon, what some call a demon. It’s not a fallen angel. It’s not a devil. It’s not even an evil spirit, per se. It’s a powerful, pagan entity, a heathen demigod, of sorts. Not unlike a satyr, in fact, except that it possesses bodies rather than having its own. It left its traces and imprint on your mother and you, not to mention your sister, but it was always stronger with you than with Stephanie or Hortense, because you’re male. It always bonds more with masculine energy than. .”Yulia doesn’t hear the rest of what the man has to say. She slams the doors shut and settles against it for a moment, sighing heavily. She knows damn well that there is nothing he or the police department can do to stop her from investigating, though it won’t stop them from delaying her. And in the meantime, Erlos will continue to go about murdering people. The thought of Erlos out there weighs heavily on her mind, but the more she dwells on the beast, the less it seems that it is for the. “Uh ... This is Minh Than. Minh this is our son, Jacob.” The little girl stood next to the table and bowed to me.“Ja-cob,” she said carefully.“It’s nice to meet you, Minh,” I answered. Disorientation was sweeping around me. I steadied myself with my hand on the back of a chair. “Dad?”“Son, the school called and asked if we could help out a little. Minh’s parents were in an accident and can’t take care of their children. There are four of them and CPS couldn’t find a single family to take them.