February 8
Have you ever seen something glow black? It’s not impossible. Black is an absence of light; it’s what happens when all visible wavelengths of light are absorbed by the material in question. Most of the time, light passes through air without being changed; air doesn’t absorb any of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum except when there’s a lot of it between your eye and the edge of the air. That is why the sky is blue in the daytime. But at night, the sky is black because there’s no light coming fron the sun; the starlight and the moonlight aren’t sufficient to illuminate the canopy of the sky. Their light is absorbed into the world and becomes black.
What is hovering around Lucas Reynolds’ heart is black; so very black that it looks like a piece of the night had been torn off of the sky and pasted onto him. It’s amorphous and evaporating, but it never seems to diminish in size; instead it looks almost like it’s going to flare up and out, consuming him in some unholy fire. It is fire of a sort I’ve never seen, because in the center is a color deeper than black, which I guess I could only describe as “Rage Red”. I swear that as I look deeper into the center of that flame, something in there is looking back at me. I’m looking at it like a cat looks at a new toy, curious. It’s looking at me like a cat looks at a mouse, venomous.
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