“I see something very poor, some terrible darkness, some danger on our horizon,” said the old man. “An unspeakable evil is knocking at the door of our world, wanting to come in. And worse still, it has friends here that are only to keen to open that door. But Morag, we know how this goes at this stage, we’re very close again and it always makes these … effects occur. This is normal right now.”
“So,” said Morag, “you’re not in any way perturbed by it?”
“Aye, well,” said the old man, “I dinnae say that.”
The Auld Alchemist: Chapter 10
The Auld Alchemist: Chapter 11
The Auld Alchemist: Chapter 12
The Auld Alchemist: Chapter 13
The Auld Alchemist: Chapter 14
The Benthic Times 