The Wife Who Returned
It went through the shed and through me and through the walls and out into the night and the birds that had settled back into the trees went up again all at once in a second eruption of wings that swallowed the sound and still couldn't contain it.
It came out of Adrian's body the way it had entered it, not cleanly, not willingly, dragged out by something I didn't fully understand until I watched it happen. The symbols on the floor blazing back to life, amber and white and something past both of those, and the book at the center cracking open again, and the entity moving toward it not because it chose to but because the structure Adrian and Maribel had built to trap my Entity was apparently n