card catalog

What are we looking for?

Good question, don't have an answer.

Well that's helpful.

Yes indeed. 

I suppose it's like pornography, can't be defined, but you'll know it when you see it?

laughter

I'm here because I wasn't afraid of death and you're here because?

I think, because I can see him... it... the thing, whatever it is.

I thought I saw it...

You saw a manifestation, a shadow form, something it stole from your mind, something it thought would terrify you. It feeds on fear... Literally.

Priest, christ, cross, yeah, I can see how that might have happened. Looks like it was mistaken. 

Yup. Looks that way.

the sound of footfalls on The Street of Books.

Here we are, surrounded by The Library of Babel, and no card catalogue... Not that it would be any help... Never can find a good reference librarian when you need one.

footfalls, and the dry susurration of the cold undying wind through the leafless branches of the trees.

It steals their eyes.

What?

It takes their eyes. It kills and takes their eyes.

So... if I'd... reacted... properly... I'd have ended up dead with no eyes.

Pretty much. The White Cat would have led me to you.

Huh. Instead she led me to you. 

You saw her?

I saw something. (laughter) a tunnel, a bright light, a fuckin white cat, who the hell knows. Go into the light! go into the light! So I go into the fuckin light and where the hell do I end up? In a church in the fuckin dark with a crazy man, who says I'm not dead and don't mind him, he's just on the tail of some sort of fuckin eye eating demon planning the end of the world. Shit... I need to sit down for a minute.

Fuck. This is crazy. I've lost it, after all these years I finally lost it. I'm probably in Bellvue tranked up to the eyeballs and chained to the fuckin bed.

The man who is still standing walks over and sits next to the priest

No such luck.

What?

You're not crazy, or locked up, or drugged.

Like I should take your word for it,  you're probably just a fuckin hallucination.

Could be. 

the priest reaches over and pokes him.

Yeah, but you seem solid enough... Shit.

For a priest you sure swear a lot.

I was a soldier before I joined gods army. 

Time passing

Maybe that's why you're here.