BUY - SELL - TRADE

The neon sign outside the shop flickers, a long electric whine, and suddenly, it's here, in front of me. The creature, I mean. It sort of flickers, too, in and out of existence. Like a hologram from a second-rate sci-fi movie. 

Fascinating thing.  

No idea what it's doing in a pawnshop on a Thursday evening.  

The business used to be my grandpa's. Dad said he had some weird customers, but this is something else.

There's that word again: fascinating. 

Because I'm not scared somehow, just… fascinated.

And I'm still  pretty much in awe when the creature dons my body like a trench coat and we walk out into the chill, damp night.

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Pic: Spell Brite

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