A sea of tormented souls writhed about within Elijah Blackwood’s brain like parasitic worms. With each new soul he harvested the deeper into the demon’s web he was drawn with no means of escaping his immortality. At the very moment when he felt he could not absorb the darkness of even one more evil being, he encountered the children.
Marooned on Minis Gitigaan, an island of the dead in the middle of Lake Michigan, Elijah’s thoughts turned to his only true friend in life, Robert Marigold. Lifetimes of guilt gnawed him to the bone for abandoning the man, leaving him to suffer the unbridled wrath of the child-hag. One aspect of immortality rang true, it offered a man plenty of time to pray for death.