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  "title": "Chapter 4 — Mister",
  "content": "New Hades, States of America. Concurrently.\n\nSister turned the corner so fast, she kicked up a considerable dust cloud that loomed behind her. Her chest heaved as she came upon a scene that snatched the final bit of air from her lungs as she stared in horror upon a Haint that towered over the smaller figure of Mister.\n\nOne clean shot to the head left Mister splayed, legs apart, right hand still clutching his canteen, eyes fixed wide in his final moments in fear and surprise. It happened so fast, tears didn't even have the chance to fall from his face.\n\nSister stopped in her tracks, inches from the Haint as it turned to face her and continued its cold, clang-toned refrain.\n\n\"INTERLOPERS ARE TO BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY. INTERLOPERS ARE TO BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY. INTERLOPERS ARE TO BE TERMINATED IMMEDIATELY.\"\n\nUncle stared from the window of the General Store, safely ensconced inside where the tears that wet his face could fall freely, and he mourned with Sister. The soundless sob that emanated from his lips from the shock left no air in his lungs. Ominous clouds rolled in, and the neon-light sign above the store finally went dark, leaving Uncle's face ashen and outlined only by the light from inside the store.\n\nSister fell to her knees, unable to move as she stared at the lifeless body of her son that laid on the ground in front of her, her mouth stuck open in disbelief and the onset of grief.\n\nAs the Haint's refrain looped and it lifted its arm to fire at her, it paled in comparison to the wail that escaped from Sister's deepest inner soul. A wail so loud, so mournful, so full of woe that the world around her seemed to stop when it emerged audibly.\n\n\"MISTER!,\" the last syllable held and fading only because she ran out of air to sustain it.\n\nUncle, now on the porch, was the only one who was not frozen by what he saw. Though the clouds had darkened the skies, seemingly in response to what was unfolding in front of him, faint lights danced in the pupils of his eyes. The aura around Sister changed right in front of his eyes, along with her destiny. He really hadn't met anyone like Sister before, and she was soon to find out why herself.\n\nThe air crackled behind Sister, even though she was too enveloped in her grief to even notice. Vibrant, prismatic colors swirled and coalesced into orbs and began to dance in the air around her, electrifying the atmosphere and Main Street. Sister's Autoxen came to life, the derelict powered by the energy seemingly materializing in the air around it. The Haint's beady red eyes dimmed in and out as it took its final aim with its Razer at Sister, whose reason to live seemed to have drained from her mind, body and soul. If there's no Mister, the Haint could take her, too.\n\nIn an instant, time stopped and a portal opened behind Sister, the orbs now combined into one large slice through the mid-air, as if reality itself had been cut opened and split apart, giving a peek into Eternity behind it for any that with the Second Sight.\n\nUncle saw, and wept at the glimpse. Then -- could it be?!\n\nA Black hand emerged from the wrinkle in time, a balled fist holding time itself it seemed with mini-circularized rainbows sparking inside of it. And then, a forearm. A whole arm, which then reached down and gently touched Sister on the shoulder, awakening her from her stupefaction.\n\nStill grief-struck, she felt the arm and the energy of it, the hairs of her kitchen standing up again on edge.\n\nMidnite's other arm emerged from the ether, this hand palm open and crackling with the same energy. And with one simple swipe, she cleaved the Haint into two, its final announcement tapering off as it collapsed into two halves and its existence came to an end.\n\nSister turned around and was even more dumbstruck; she heard a voice but there was no movement of the mouth from who had grasped her shoulder firmly.\n\n\"I'm here to help,\" Midnite said telepathically.\n\nAll Sister could manage was tears, which streamed hot down her face though time was still frozen around her.\n\nThe anger flared and created a heat of hate within her she never felt before. It burned so hot, the tears started to evaporate from her face the second they emerged from her pained eyes. The energy that emanated from Midnite in the air shifted to reflect Sister's pain and anguish, the multi-hued rainbows becoming a red-hot aura that enveloped Sister -- and she was suddenly aware, of everything. Aware of Uncle. Aware of the destroyed Haint. Aware of Mister's body. Aware of Midnite. Aware of time. She had begun to see, her Second Sight activated at the angelic presence of Midnite.\n\nShe saw. She knew. And she vowed to burn it all down.",
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