William Oh once sneezed near a Climber Possessed by an evil spirit.‘Bless you!’ the evil spirit said reflexively, not daring to be rude around William Oh, and in the process exorcised itself.Jason Salazar The floor wrapped around Will’s heel and propelled him forward at full speed, straight towards the floor-to-ceiling window.Will threw his axe ahead of him, guiding it with his Phantom Snakes.Crash!The axe punched a hole through the strangely strong glass, and Will followed behind, smashing through the weakened hole face-first, using his mask as a battering ram and tumbling through the window.There.The body had fallen another thirty feet in the fraction of a second it had taken Will to jump out.Will sent the Phantom Snakes streaking down, easily catching up with the man and wrapping around his waist, bringing him to a gentle halt to avoid snapping his spine.Who are we dealing with? Will thought, landing on a platform of air as he turned the man around, prepared to cuss him out for playing chicken on the edge of the building or whatever stupid game the young men in the caravan liked to get up to.Will froze as he came face-to-face with something out of a horror story.The man’s face was contorting wildly as though the muscles were struggling against each other, his eyes and mouth oozing black substance reminiscent of the undead spread across the road beneath them.Kline, I think his name is. One of the Carpenters.As he saw Will, he gave a black-ooze grin and slipped a civilian dagger out of his belt. The kind they might use for whittling, cutting bread or rope.He whipped the dagger up-Will’s middle snake wrapped around Kline’s wrist an instant before the dagger plunged into the man’s own eye.Why is he trying to kill himself?Will put it together in an instant. (...)