Adam’s recurring dreams of Aaron and Isaac stopped, though he wished they might come back just once more. He wanted they to come and tell him that he was on the right path. They could tell him that he was finally finished being a destructive force and had created something beneficial. No such dream ever came, but neither did more stress dreams.

He was thinking about them when Gladys and Dante came to him.

“Hey,” said Gladys. “Got reports of something happening downtown that sounds maybe paranormal.”

“Well,” Adam said, “Let us go and look into it.”

So they did.