QUERIES III

Kane took a deep breath and pulled his gaze away from the blood-colored water, and let his air out, breathing away everything but the task at hand. He had to let go of his physical body, making himself incredibly vulnerable to a potential enemy already occupied by the vampire. It was much more difficult than he expected, now that he could feel emotion and it mattered that he stayed alive. The dark spot in the jaguar-man's brain recoiled, minute wormlike creatures writhing as his spirit entered the other man, bathing the brain in white-hot energy. He heard the jaguar roar and the man hiss out a warning. He hesitated, afraid of injuring the warrior.

"Do it. I do not want that thing inside of me."

Kane attacked the stain, breaching the outer rings and burning them clean with healing light. The tiny parasites tried to dig deeper into the brain in an effort to escape. As they scattered, he could see to the core of the jaguar-man. The parasites tried to keep the light out of the jaguar-man