Chapter 95

It was pity.

“Nathan,” Solrin said slow and direct, almost patronizing as he strained against Jim’s hold keeping him to the wall, “they have clouded your mind so well you do not even know what you are saying. I admit that Jim and I seem to share something in our…abilities, but I see their true faces, and that is more than simply seeing an incubus for what it really is, or the darkness spilling from Jim just as light spills from you. I never thought something like you could exist,” he said with that same strange reverence taking shape on his face, “something to counter all the evil I have seen in my life. You are the proof, Nathan, the proof that what I see in them is real because I see the very opposite in you.”

Deep down Nathan knew that there had to be something wrong with what Solrin could see, because if there was any light in his life it was from the men that fought beside him.

“Nathan, this is pointless, he’s not going to listen,” Jim said.