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said.
“Aden’s right. They really hate him.”
    “ Without shares, they have
no power,” Tres said.
    “ I hope so,” Sam
repeated.
    ~~~~~~~~
    Monday afternoon — 3:15 P.M.
     
    “ Okay,” Blane said. “Are
you ready?”
    “ I’m ready,” Delphie
said.
    Blane threw another log on the raging fire
in the fireplace. Jacob was lying on his back on a massage table in
the middle of the main Castle’s main sitting room. He had more than
fifty acupuncture needles throughout his body.
    Over the course of the day, they had fought
the dark entity that lingered inside him. The dark had neither
taken hold of him nor let go of him. Blane was going to give Jacob
an acupuncture exorcism. Because the entity’s power was so strong,
Blane was not able to set the last needle. He and Delphie had spent
the last hour practicing acupuncture. He was sure she would be able
to place the last needle.
    Delphie had already sealed off the sitting
area from the rest of the house. The rest of the family waited
upstairs in the loft. Blane touched Delphie’s arm and left the room
to wait in the kitchen.
    Delphie set up an energy vortex around her
and Jacob. She created psychic protection to protect her from the
entity. When she touched Jacob’s face, he opened his eyes. He gave
her a half smile.
    “ Go ahead,” he
whispered.
    Delphie stuck the needle under his
collarbone. Jacob began to shake. He pulled on his shirt until it
ripped from his body. His body began to sweat. He grunted and his
back arched.
    Delphie watched his psychic body split open
and thousands of multicolored snakes came slithering out. Delphie
began grabbing snakes and throwing them into the blazing fire. The
fire sparked with life as the snakes were consumed. More and more
snakes came pouring out of Jacob’s body. Sweating from the hard
work and the hot room, Delphie ran from place to place collecting
the foul creatures and tossing them in the fire.
    She thought they were almost done when the
tiny tip of a black tail appeared. The tip became a thick tail. The
tail became a large reptilian creature. The size of a Mach truck,
the enormous dark entity’s bright red eyes glared at Delphie. She
tried to grab it but it laughed at her. The creature grew in size
and weight. Surprised, Delphie stepped back. The creature stepped
out of Jacob’s body on thin spindly legs. With its head scraping
the ceiling, it leaned over Delphie.
    “ I am not afraid of you,”
Delphie said through trembling lips. “I’ve known you all of my
life.”
    “ Yessss,” the creature’s
voice came in a purring calm. “My Oracle.”
    Delphie threw herself at the creature. Her
arms barely made it around its neck. The creature shook his head
and Delphie flew across the room. She hit the door to the side
hallway with a bang. The door opened a crack. Now filling all of
the room, the dinosaur like creature continued toward her. It
opened its large mouth with sharp, crooked teeth to swallow her
whole.
    “ Hello?” Katy stuck her
head in the door. “We just got home from school and there aren’t
any brownies and…”
    The creature snorted and turned his
attention to the small child.
    “ Katy! NO!” Delphie
exclaimed.
    Delphie shouted to hail the creature’s
attention back to her. He opened his mouth over Delphie. Struck
with terror, Delphie couldn’t move. Her head went into the
creature’s mouth.
    “ Hey, get away from my
Delphie,” Katy said. “That’s not nice.”
    With a flick of her hand, the creature flew
across the room.
    “ Fire,” Jacob whispered.
“To the fire.”
    Paddie stepped into the room behind Katy. In
an instant, the creature shrank to the size of a small, dark
spider. The tiny spider zoomed across the room toward the
children.
    “ Katy doesn’t like
spiders,” Paddie said. He stomped on the spider.
    Delphie jerked Paddie off the ground before
the entity could invade him. Katy bent down to look at the squashed
spider. The spider began to grow into a serpent again.
    “