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It can kill us.

I wasn't sure before, but after tonight I am certain. It is possible for a creature of dream to kill our physical bodies.
A few days ago, I would have given anything to know, with such conviction, that such things exist. That the world is truly as I have always believed: far deeper that its surface reflects.
And on a level, a part of me is thrilled by the realization. If this is confirmed, then what else might I encounter? What other spirits, beasts, or realms might make themselves known? What could I learn from the countless other times I have walked the earth, from those times and those places?

But, on a more immediate and personal level, there is the horror to contend with. A creature that feeds on pain, that steals from souls. A friend, new and yet old, hospitalized from spiritual torture.
We have a battle ahead of us. We are wracked with fear, and yet find reasons to hope. I am very, truly glad that I have found them all, whatever may come. And it will be very satisfying to open our war against this creature. I do believe we will win. These bonds have lasted centuries, and endure against all reason, it cannot break them with lies.

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This is why I need you in my life. I get these half-formed notions along these lines, and you manage to write them down in beautiful clarity. You're like a me-to-verbiage translator. Which I guess makes me your verbiage-to-fists translator, if you'll accept my assistance.

I like the idea of going looking for less evil creepy-crawlies when this is all over. We could be ghost hunters! It would be fantastic.

There's nothing that the shadow monster could do to us that would break what we have. It can try to twist our bonds all it wants, but to actually break them it would have to *understand* them, and I don't think it's capable of that.

Please don't call ghost "creepy-crawlies". It's kind of demoralizing.

Of course you can join in with my paranormal research! I would be happy to have you along. Just try to judge the nature of what we find before employing those fists of yours. I would hate to see anything benign at the receiving end of them. And I would hate for you to end up in any further danger.

But, I worry too much. You've always been a very good judge of character. Perhaps those instincts of yours would prove an even better asset than your fists.

And I agree entirely. It is incapable of understanding the very thing it is trying to take from us. We will defeat it.