Once I had seen that Raymond Winslow was awake inside that still body, once I had felt his fingers answer mine, the option of walking away quietly had closed.

Not because I was noble, but because I would not have been able to live with the other choice.

Some doors, once you see through them, you cannot unsee.

Chapter 8 — Four O’Clock

At four o’clock exactly, Dr.

Samuel Wallace arrived, carrying a heavy black leather briefcase, and I watched him do something that I did not understand in the moment but would come to understand with horror by the end of that night.

He opened the briefcase and took out a small white box.