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- He sighed and shook his head. “Harry . . . do you know what that island is like, for the rest of us?”
- I shook my head.
- “The last time I was there, I was shot twice,” he said. “I was in intensive care for a month. I was in bed for four months. I didn’t walk again for nearly a year. There was permanent damage to my hip and lower back, and physically, it was the single most extended, horribly painful, grindingly humiliating experience of my life.”
- “Yeah,” I said.
- “And,” he said, “when I have nightmares of it, you know what I dream about?”
- “What?”
- “The island,” Michael said. “The . . . presence of it. The malevolence there.” He shuddered.
- Michael, Knight of the Cross, who had faced deadly spirits and demons and monsters without flinching, shivered in fear.
- “That place is horrible,” he said quietly. “The effect it has . . . It’s obvious that it doesn’t even touch you. But I don’t know if I could go back there again, by choice.”
- Skin Game Chapter 20, Page 151-152
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