"The pact kind." The chaplain's voice skimmed the hallway like a cautious animal. "The bargaining that leaves a ledger."
Being "The Nightmaretaker" is less about physical strength and more about the mental toll of being a bridge between Hell and Earth. The Nightmaretaker- The Man Possessed by the Devil
He kept to the hours when the world forgot it was awake. The town slept under sodium lamps and the iron hush of midnight; only the hospice on Larkspur Lane breathed in the dark. Inside its brick ribs, Martin Hale made his rounds. "The pact kind