The Casebook of Newbury & Hobbes
“He could sense them there, watching him with their blank, impassive eyes. They’d been there for hours, ever since he’d returned from the White Friar’s. Earlier, he’d convinced himself they were mere phantoms, nothing but products of his unconscious mind, but now he was beginning to doubt his own veracity. Were they in fact real, physical entities? Malign spectres that had come from the realm of the netherworld to torment him? He was no longer sure.
He’d tried calling out to them to provoke a re...sponse, but his words had fallen on deaf ears, echoing around the otherwise empty house. He’d received only silence in reply; only the same eerily unwavering, blank-faced stares. So he had smoked another of his cigarettes—the carefully crafted, opium-tainted cigarettes he’d taken to carrying in a silver case in his breast pocket—and allowed himself to drift away into the temporary seclusion of an opium dream.
Now, however, this short-lived reprieve had reached its inevitable end and the three figures still stood in judgement by the window, resolutely refusing to be dismissed from their vigil.MoreLess
He’d tried calling out to them to provoke a re...sponse, but his words had fallen on deaf ears, echoing around the otherwise empty house. He’d received only silence in reply; only the same eerily unwavering, blank-faced stares. So he had smoked another of his cigarettes—the carefully crafted, opium-tainted cigarettes he’d taken to carrying in a silver case in his breast pocket—and allowed himself to drift away into the temporary seclusion of an opium dream.
Now, however, this short-lived reprieve had reached its inevitable end and the three figures still stood in judgement by the window, resolutely refusing to be dismissed from their vigil.MoreLess
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