Half-step Purgatory

Durin stroked the black cat on the armrest of his chair, sitting on the black leather sofa. Through the glasses perched on his nose, his gaze passed over the long table in front of him and settled on the man kneeling on the carpet:
"I understand, you've made money in Naples, your business has been very successful, and you've led a happy life. You've had those secret police, friends in both the law and the underground, and even the Royal Family speaking on your behalf."
"You don't need a friend like me, I know that. You're afraid of owing me a favor, and you don't want to get involved in troubles."
"But now you come to me and say, 'I beg you, Mr. Durin of the Corleon family, please help me seek justice, so that my life and my family will not suffer and sink into despair.'
Yet, in your eyes, I was nothing more than a second-rate artist involved in movies and music. Even at the brink of death, you still show me such disrespect, not even willing to call me by my title... Keeper of Secrets."

Durin's Diary

Tony looked embarrassed, but since he had brought up the topic, he had no choice but to introduce Durin to two types of banshees.


First, the Sunlight Banshee. Naturally, a banshee is a female spirit transformed after death. It is a type of phantom, but Sunlight Banshees aren't afraid of sunlight, and they usually originate from young, unmarried women who died due to violence.


Such banshees are rare in Lublin because there are so many priests. Victims often undergo several times the divine cleansing their bodies can bear before they transform, and then are laid to rest peacefully.


As for the perpetrators, the excution frames at the village crossroads always have an 'honored seat' waiting.


In the nations of humankind, now Sunlight Banshees are also seldom seen, only in rural areas and regions plagued by war is it possible for such tragedies to occur.


Chapter 25: Long Night