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Partway through Van's story about the night Shad first died:
— But, Shad's dead, I said.
— At this point, that is very true, said Van. But such it is that when we was bound to the Wisewood floor by them briars and thorns, we became mighty close — a connection, some sort of meeting of minds, of souls maybe, if tha believes that they exist.
View full editionShad, you moochie old skriker!
View full editionShad has no physiological need for food — Van confirmed this directly, noting that an undead barghest is past the point at which the body requires fuel — but Shad eats voraciously regardless. Van's theory is muscle memory: the spirit and habit of the living creature continuing past its own death. The anecdote that produced this theory was Van describing the moment Shad appeared from the dark moorland and stood over the body of the thing that had been killing him, at which point Van, recounting the story in a bar forty years later, had a tear in his eye.
View full editionShad is a barghest — Van Hallam's enormous black companion, audible but rarely visible, who appears when called by a whisper. He returns to the Wisewood and the grimy streets of Hellsborough between assignments for what Van describes as his own ghostly and demonic entertainment; what this involves has never been fully explained, and I have found it prudent not to ask.
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