I just left the morgue, and for the first time in my life decided to write down my thoughts. Maybe it's because I am alone in the hospital except for the poor patients in the ward and their nurse. I know security is outside, but after looking at the last body to be brought in, it's somehow not that comforting. I'm not one to panic, I pretty much keep my head, but that poor girl. Like the one before her and the one before that. Not really much left of the lovely young women they must have been. I don't know how Sage can do the autopsies and not loose everything she's thought about eating in a year. After all the surgeries I've done, all the emergencies, I've never felt so sick looking at what used to be a living, breathing person.

At least with the flu, death is understandable. But not this. How can anyone be so sick. So.. so...evil. That's it totally evil. Gosh, I feel a shiver going down my back and arms. Now, when I watch a co-worker walk out the door, I wonder if .. if they'll run into evil and come back in a body bag. Wonder if they'll walk along dark streets and hear footsteps behind them. Will he or most likely she, look behind them and walk faster, look around to see the autumn leaves whirling along the street in front of them on the edge of a brisk breeze. Will a street light go out just as they pass under it and they'll know... they are being watched. I have to walk home in a bit and I know, since the taxi drivers only come if they want to, I'll most likely being on my own. Listening, alert to every sound and shadow until I'm home tucked safely in bed, then I'll laugh at how silly I am. But will there be someone who doesn't make it home?

All Hallow's Eve.... Halloween... so near, will it have a special meaning to this evil thing that's settled in our city? Is it more evil that anything else here? Yes, I believe it is because it strikes, tortures, mutilates and is gone. Like a shadow moving across the moon, unnoticed, unstopped.

The Detective, Jake, came to talk to me. He had no answers, yet. But he will, I have to believe that he will so that I feel things will at least get back to normal. Normal for Hathian, that is.