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need you to…” Seth
turned to Jacob.
    Jacob turned around so that his face was
right in front of Seth’s.
    “ This is what’s going to
happen,” Jacob said in a low voice. “Delphie and I are going to
collect the spirits into the central room. We need to be left
alone. No matter what you hear, or think you hear, stay here. There
is an entity in this building that will do anything to lure you
into its power. Do not give it the chance. Delphie?”
    Delphie pulled a round container of sea salt
out of her large bag. She poured a large circle of salt around
them. From her bag, she retrieved four plastic bags filled with
salt.
    “ This is pure sea salt.”
Delphie gave a bag of salt to each of them. “Spirits can’t easily
move over salt and don’t like it. Use your salt if you need it. It
should keep you safe.”
    “ If you hear or see
something, check it out with the others,” Jacob said.
    “ Hear something?” Seth
asked.
    “ I used to hear the sound
of a child crying,” Aden shivered. “I looked and looked and looked…
Every night for months. I never found her.”
    “ But…” Gretel
said.
    “ Gretel, they will need
you the most,” Delphie gave the woman a bright smile. “Just like
everything else in life, men and women rarely see or hear the same
thing.”
    “ If Gretel doesn’t hear
what you hear, see what you see, it’s not happening,” Jacob said.
“Aden, you have some experience with this thing. Use it to help the
others. But stay here.”
    “ We should go,” Delphie
said. “It’s…”
    Jacob’s head jerked toward the hallway. He
took off running. In his wake they heard him say, “I fucking hate
this…”
    “ Stay here. Stick
together. It can’t get to you if you’re together,” Delphie said.
She gave them a bright smile. With a nod, she ran after
Jacob.
    Aden watched them run into the dark house.
For a moment, he could see Jacob in the dim light. Then there was a
burst of bright light followed by total darkness.
    Aden flicked the switch behind them.
    Nothing.
    Instinctively, Aden, Seth, Gretel and Jeff
shifted closer to each other. In the darkness, they waited.
    ~~~~~~~~
    Monday early morning — 12:07 A.M.
     
    Running toward a wisp of a dark shadow,
Jacob heard his mother’s voice in his head.
    “ There are creatures in
this world that are dark. Not dark like dark chocolate or simply
black in color. Their very essence is the deep darkness. They draw
energy and light from the living and the dead. They use this energy
to control the living and the dead,” Celia’s voice said. “They
quest for control and power. Some human beings have a tiny portion
of this energy – dictators, Stalin, Mengele, Hitler, Mao, even
Delphie’s tormentor, Johansen. This creature is a raw source of
their… perversion.”
    The shadow threw a surge of dark energy at
Jacob. Every light in the building came on. With a pop, the power
went off.
    “ Remember how I told you
that you’d never see one of these creatures?” Celia’s voice asked.
“I was wrong. This creature is worse than anything I’ve ever seen
or heard of. It’s like something out of legend. You must protect
yourselves very carefully.”
    “ Delphie?” Jacob
asked.
    “ I heard her,” Delphie
said.
    “ He’s going to want to get
a hold of you, Jacob,” Celia said. “If he controls you, he controls
all of your power and capacity. Do not give him the chance. Even
the tiniest piece of his energy can infiltrate you and you will be
under his control forever.”
    “ She’s right,” Delphie
said.
    Jacob and Delphie stayed in one place until
their eyes adjusted to the dark. The entity appeared and then
disappeared.
    The apparition of a young girl stood where
the entity had been. The child wore a clean Victorian nightshirt.
She coughed into her hand.
    “ Child, why are you here?”
Delphie asked.
    The child shook her head and pointed to what
looked like a black belt around her midsection.
    “ The entity binds her
here,” Jacob