I was surprised to hear it so clearly when I had spent years doing everything I could think of to stop hearing the call. I thought that when I gave in... at last to the calling of my Darkness I would only hear the weak cries I had been working so hard to ignore for oh so long. Much to my amazement however that one pure tone of anguished need cried out to me, long and loud and pure, and it happened within days of my surrender to the Darkness, it did not take weeks, or months, or years, but merely a. “It’s not a magic word, Karen. It isn’t even a real name. According to Jewish tradition, it’s actually...”“Don’t say it!” she cried.He held up a hand in a peace gesture. “Alright, I won’t, but there is nothing to be frightened of. You could say it too, you know. Words only have power over you if you let them.”“We cannot.” Karen shook her head, sending her bangs to fall around her face like a curtain.“Why not?”“Because ... we are the damned. We are not worthy.”“Not worthy?” Logan struggled to. The White Housewas made aware of it in case any ne'er-do-wells attempted to weaponizethe formula."At this point, a tickling at the man's scalp began, as his fine wig wasgradually pushed off of his head by real hair growing for the first timein decades. He began to notice that something was off as wrinkles beganto fade from his face."What are you doing to me?!" he half begged, half demanded.The sound over the intercom was a villainous laugh. "Think of this way.You were always the 'Change'. The sphere shuddered, then rapidly expanded with a low roar. It paused, then collapsed back upon itself, turning inside-out, a long tunnel expanding into the distance beyond the shimmering surface of the sphere.The Portal had been opened.Shadows appeared in the distance and rapidly expanded into view at impossible speed, until they resolved into several muscular men carrying large crates, stepping with alacrity from the Portal entrance."Quickly now," Jollis ordered. "There is no time to.
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