KANE II

Dream continuation:

What was going on? Kane fought to get on top of the strange tumbling of jumbled thoughts in his mind. He pushed hard to clear away the debris and focus on what he knew of his past. He had stepped in front of a vampire just before the latter had killed Blenda, his twin's lifemate. Fire burned through his insides, spreading rapidly as the something like poison worked its way through his system. Blood ran in rivers and light faded quickly. He heard voices calling, chanting, felt his brother reaching for him to try to hold him to earth.

He'd found himself in a shadowy realm, banshees wailing, shadows flickering and reaching. Skeletons. Dark spiked teeth. Talons. Spiders and cockroaches. Snakes hissing. The skeletons drawing closer and closer until... He closed his mind to his surroundings, to all shared pathways, so there was no chance anyone could be feeding his own fears. It had to be hallucination brought on by a vampire or mage. No matter that he had stopped anyth