The Shine

His Caged Sword - Book One of the Light and Lust Tetradiad

I hate it in supernatural stories when the main character accepts the premise and then continues being stupid. The smoking hot omnisexual 18-year-old hero of the piece stumbles into the vampire-werewolf-witch war, accepts vampires and werewolves and witches, then a bunch of ghost shit happens and they never think for a moment that ghosts might be real. They're all "What's going on, am I going crazy?" until the way older werewolf or vampire or witch character they're banging explains to them about ghosts.

Just once I want to see a story where the main character learns about sexy mermaids and goes "Oh shit, lots of other supernatural stuff is probably real too."

I don't know why, but that's what I was thinking about on the drive to Rochester. I saw a woman fall apart like a cheap puppet, which is arguably my fault, and that's what I was thinking about. It's troubling that I'm not more troubled.

Seems like I should be. Of the possibility of being a suspect in a murder if nothing else.

Maybe I can pretend that the reason I'm not emotional about Madame X is because I'm too worried about Eterno. Time is slipping away and the two things I tried were a disaster.

What's been on my mind is why Eterno hasn't attacked me directly. Madame X, I think I understand what happened there. She was reaching out to him. I think she made a connection with him and that's how he got her.

But why would he possess Bloody Mary to attack me with her body and not just possess me if he wanted to fuck up my program? Because I'm magic and she isn't? Seems like it would work the opposite way.

Maybe Obaluaiye did something to protect me without me understanding what he was doing.

Doesn't matter at this point. When I get there either he'll be able to fuck me up or he won't. I thought about trying to buy a gun or a combat knife but a tire iron will have to do.