. but it couldn't be just anyone ... she wanted Dustin.But he had never really even looked at her as anything but that pain in the ass hand he had hir...d who had proven her mettle over and over on the job. She noticed that he had never had a steady girlfriend ... at least not one lasting over several weeks. He had that restlessness about him. That was fine ... so did she...She sat on the blanket trying to find a way to relax, on her back ... but as she looked at the rafters and felt the heat. " And the one you can see around your father."Jason's eyes widened. "How did you know about--" Do you consider your father to be working for the Darkness?" Well ... no. To be honest, I'm not sure who he's really working for anymore." And how do you know he's not working for it?"Jason hesitated, unsure if he should assume to what depth of knowledge of Harbinger abilities the Darkness possessed, yet he could find no way for this particular item to be turned against anyone. "I can see patterns in. ***“You need to watch it with them white girls,” Javon's uncle told him. “I don't know a black man that ain't been burned hanging out with them, no matter what they givin' up to you, that ain't been messed up by 'em. An' messing with more than one at a time, now that's jus' askin' for trouble.”“How about Uncle Bob?” a younger cousin asked helpfully, taking a drag on his beer. “He gots 'em comin' and goin' and don't never have a problem, not so's we'd see anyway.”Bob Smith had indeed done well. Somehow this was more frightening than the odd noises Katrina had half heard in her sleep, and as the young girl stood in the thick gloom, staring over the railing at the floor below, a chill ran down her spine. Yet somehow, she felt compelled to descend into the deeper darkness. Somehow Katrina knew that she would never sleep well without knowing what had awakened her.Creeping down the stairs, the girl wrinkled her nose, the pungent odour rising again, this time thicker, heavier in the air..