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Fang

My best friend Perhaps even more than a friend My uidance had been invaluable It was safe to say that I one batshit crazy without his help

No pun intended

That he had stalked me and fallen in love with me were different matters entirely That he had been a friend when I needed a friend the most hat I would always re across from hie of Fullerton, in a shabby co was lying on his couch in the fetal position, shaking violently I was certain that he was not aware of

According to Fang, this was the very complex where Dick - the author of Blade Runner , Total Recall, and Minority Report, to name a few of his ious and visionary experiences

Except now, as I watched Fang curl tighter into the fetal position, I knew there was nothing religious or visionary going on here What I was seeing was a ; it wasn’t nice

What was going on here, I kneas death His body wasn’t just changing into so, pure and si

Replaced

So dark and sinister - and looking for a foothold into this world

Jesus

The energy around Fang was interesting, to say the least The deep black halo that surrounded hiht I had never seen that before I itnessing so’s aparto Back then, I was still on the fence with Fang, still open to the possibility of romance He had served drinks and we had sat on this very same couch He had played music and I knew his intention was to seduce hts, after all But we never got very far From the mo I had stood and told hi had looked iven me a sweet kiss on the cheek and told me to drive safely

And noas back, and watching him writhe and sweat and pant on the couch That is, until I heard the sound at the door

Detective Hanner of the Fullerton Police Departher was disturbing We stared at each other some more My shoulders tensed I was ready to move quickly if I had to

But I didn’t have to She nodded to me after a moment, then turned and quietly shut the door Once done, she tossed her coat over the back of a dining chair and walked toward sley’s, but I could see what appeared to be tiny flickers of fla, Samantha Moon," she said evenly When she spoke to htly fored with a hint of an Eastern European accent Perhaps it was her natural dialect froan ringing I watched her carefully, aware that there was also ht Thehad, I was certain, materialized within the shadows A shadoithin a shadow My alarrew louder Now I saw it fro away fro shadow

Hanner, as far as I could tell, was unaware of the shadow Or chose not to acknowledge it "I would strongly advise you, sister," she said, "that you not disrupt the changing"

Outside of a creepy book that had once called out to me, I had never been referred to as sister before I didn’t like it It made my skin crawl It made me feel less than human

More than human, hissed a voice in my head Always more than human

And now I did turn - in ti step away from the wall No, peel away froh still dark as night, the two-di three-di with depth and substance

The entity soon stood beforeand falling gently on ethereal tides that I neither felt nor saw It was tall, a foot or so taller than me But narrow Its shoulders were nearly non-existent Shadowy hands ended in curved, shadowy claws that opened and closed below its narrow hips It stopped beforeht

Yesss, the entity hissed, and I saw that its head tilted slightly to one side Black ’s carpet You are a sssister of the night, Sssaet that