Devil and the Touch
Let’s
talk about touch - the paranormal
kind - the kind that features in both Neverlove and Givin’
Up The Ghost,
only in different ways.
Indigo (Givin’ Up
The Ghost) is psychometric. She can read the history of an object, or
person, through touch. For example, she is so sensitive to things she touches,
that if she lifts a pint glass and the person who drank from the glass is a
heavy drinker... you got it...she gets drunk. Wasted. Sloshed. Check out what happens in this scene when she wraps a hand
around a pint glass:
I
opened my eyes. My head pounded as I lay sprawled amidst broken glass on the
sticky floor of Dickey Dan’s. The rank odor of stale beer assaulted my senses
and I quickly rolled over and upchucked right there. All over Badger’s boots. All four of them. Looking up, I tried to
focus. Badger stood there. Both of him. “Double the pleasure.” I giggled, and
lay back. The room spun. “Whoa, someone stop this thing and let me off.”
As you
can see, Indigo has the so-called ‘gift’ of touch, but absolutely no control
over it.
Pam (a
villain from Neverlove) on the other hand, has complete
control over siphoning - the process of stealing soul energy. Pam would like to be in control of
everything, but siphoning is something she excels at. For her, it isn’t stealing. It’s survival of the fittest. As a Harvestor, she sees herself as fitter
than a mere human bound to Earth’s realms and rules, something she’s been doing
for a long time. Don’t ask her how long,
though, or she may do this to you for general purposes:
Pam reached up and jerked the
man’s face down. Her lips bound to his. He squawked in protest half a heartbeat
then loosened like Jello.
Yeah. It’s a kiss.
More like the kiss of drain.
Guess where his guy ended up?
Husband and wife laid side by
side like heaped rag dolls.
No, Pam
had no qualms about his wife standing there…not when his wife was otherwise
occupied as a drained rag doll as well.
