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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 20: A light supper]

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Summary: With a clear feeling of anticipation, Rin attends Reginald Hargreeves's invitation to 'A Light Supper'.

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His posture exudes dignity, his graying forehead bearing an air of austerity, meticulously composed. His eyes, nestled above his goatee, hold a neutrality that reflects back any judgment you might cast upon yourself. He's dressed in a charcoal suit, matched with a shirt in the same shade as my blouse. His black tie peeks from beneath a checkered jacket adorned with gleaming buttons. And perched over his left eye is a monocle, suspended from a gold chain: a possession I had long known of, yet never actually seen until now.

Without even looking at me, he proceeds to a table for two, arranging the records of all his interviews and his notebook meticulously on the table. After pulling out a pen, he adjusts his sleeves and assumes a silent stance, tacitly signaling for me to join him. A defiant impulse washes over me, tempting me to withhold compliance until he makes a direct and polite request. But I guess that would be pointless, and if I aim to steer this interview to my advantage rather than his, I'd better watch my temper. Slowly, feigning nonchalance, I pull out the wicker chair opposite him.

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 19: A river flowing through infinity]

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Summary: Rin has finally decided to return to the Destiny Children's Mansion. There, she's gardening with Jill… while Klaus receives an unexpected visit from Dave.

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And so, here I am once again in the night, walking around Kitty's former home, which no longer looks anything like the ghostly abandoned building I came to visit Klaus in, a few days ago. I soon realized what was going on when I saw the golden lights dancing again behind the window panes. Passing by our beloved Priscilla, parked on the gravel, the frescoes on her coachwork unchanged since the happy days in Baja. Hearing the clamors rising from the countless rooms inside, including the one of the 'Sex Swing'. One thing is clear: the 'Destiny's Children' have indeed returned. (…)

Crack! Without warning, just tightening the grip on my big bag so that it doesn't slip away, I teleport straight to the room where I know Klaus will have shut himself in if he's really back. Just where the ghostly sheets had last covered the furniture, and where everything - from artwork to carpets - has come to life again tonight. The light is just pure amber, gleaming on the copper chandeliers. Laughter is everywhere, quinoa is cooking in the kitchen. I guess Klaus hasn't told them anything yet.

He sits there. Motionless, on the yoga mat where he does nothing at all, unable to bring himself to move. And he jolts when he hears the familiar sound of my arrival. He doesn't turn around though, as I stay in his back, and I can see him running a hand over his eyes as he tries to convince himself that I'm really there. Ben is leaning against the mantelpiece, beneath the large portrait: we glance at each other silently, which says more than if we were talking. Finally, I put my bag on the floor and go and sit on the mat, between Klaus and the hookah.

"I've screwed the pooch again," he only tells me, and I shake my head slowly as my arms hug my knees. My eyes are on the ground, unsteady and unfocused. And Klaus still doesn't look at me. "You just hastened what was going to happen anyway." I feel like this sentence goes much deeper than my simple situation, but Klaus seems to reject it immediately anyhow, so I add: "Lloyd and I weren't meant to last in space-time". And he shakes his head again. "I'm that annoying mosquito that keeps popping up to ruin your barbecues".

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

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hidelias · 14 days

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One week, maximum two | Klaus's young years #6

This is the 6th one-shot about Klaus and Rin's young years >>> AO3 - Wattpad

Summary: Rin is a 20-year-old punk girl born with a strange power that she uses for illegal work: she can teleport, make herself invisible or intangible. Over several nights in police custody, just over a year ago, she met a strange cellmate named Klaus… also endowed with an extremely invasive power: that of communicating with the dead.

After the death of Rin's mother, Klaus decides to move in… in the stairwell of her apartment building.

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He had settled between the elevator and the stairwell, in the nook where the cleaning company usually left the little cart with the household products. He hadn't brought a lot of things. An out-of-date vinyl mat, a blue-gray tartan blanket, a small sofa cushion, an old duffel bag with his wet-smelling clothes. And a little stove that had already set off the fire alarm once, on which he heated instant soups and heroin alike.

When I came downstairs that day, I found him there, busy struggling with knitting needles, from the end of which hung a shapeless piece of work resembling a mop, made of wool from an old sweater. He had probably come in and passed the intercom at the same time as the mailman or a neighbor. And now he'd even pinned to the wall above his 'bed' a small flyer for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which would soon be playing at a theater on Crescent Boulevard, The City's equivalent of Broadway. He seemed to be feeling particularly comfortable in his new 'nest', and had put on his Converse shoes to dry after the heavy rains.

"Klaus, what are you doing here?", I asked him in a tired, jaded voice, my big garbage bag dangling at the side of my leg, without completing the motion that should have taken me to the garbage room.

He looked me up and down, surely considering if anything had changed during the week we hadn't seen each other, then replied while trying to untangle what I couldn't define as a knit or a knot :

"Rin. You won't believe it. I randomly sneaked into a building last night to take shelter during the downpour, and it turns out to be the one where you live!"

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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 18: The ache for what never was]

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Summary: After spending the night at ghost Wayne Wilson's house, Rin returns to Glen Oaks… and meets Dave again.

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"I'm going to live my life, far away from here, Rin," he tells me, and I understand.

He sees it as an opportunity to fly away, even if it's not exactly the one he would have wanted. And suddenly, I'm convinced of something else: - he - wouldn't have changed for anything in the world the ten months he spent with Klaus, and the outcome wouldn't have mattered. He would have longed for the sleepless nights at the camp, spent simply smoking; the days of leave and the overheated bars of Saigon; the chaotic road to Bangkok in search of the ink for Sak Yant's tattoos. He would literally have given his life to go through this hell of mud and blood with him, to give him the strength to keep at bay his demons. And for mere hours spent in the water tower shed at the camp in Ap Bia.

Although I don't know what paradox has arisen from our actions, I'm no longer sure that Klaus and I did the right thing. Klaus had said he was feeling 'the ache for what would never happen', when he lost him the first time. Today, it's likely that what they experienced has been erased from Dave's possibilities. And what I feel now, on the contrary, is 'the ache for what finally never was'.

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

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hidelias · 17 days

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And here is @sonder-writes 's fic, offering their version of what season 4 might be like. I'm having so much fun reading it right now! 💜 Their version of Klaus speaks to me a lot, makes me laugh of course, and sometimes breaks my heart, as it should…

chapter 16! mostly Viktor being trans and autistic :3 (and very stressed)

fic summary: The Umbrella Academy are in a new timeline now and they have to navigate not having their powers (and losing other things too), newfound lost love interests, dopplegängers, and Reginald's stash of marigold.

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hidelias · 17 days

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Thank you so, so much, @sonder-writes ! I also love your story so much, and interacting with you! 💜

A bend in space-time || a TUA fanfiction

Thanks to everyone who reads and shares my stories!

I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

[A bend in space-time] - Season 1: AO3 - Wattpad - FFN [Complete] - Season 2: AO3 - Wattpad - FFN [Ongoing] - Snippets of Memory [Ongoing]: AO3 - Wattpad - A collection of one-shots recounting the young years of Klaus, through the eyes of Rin (the original character from 'A bend in space-time'

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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 17: Chapter 19: οἴκαδε]

[Chapter 17: Chapter 19: οἴκαδε] Links : AO3 - Wattpad - FFN

Summary: After the incident between Klaus and Lloyd, Rin takes refuge in the alleyway where she had arrived in 1961. There, Five finds her and talks to her about… "going home"

(…) I don't say anything, I keep my head in my arms, but that young, slightly nasal voice is easy to recognize. I'm not even surprised to find him here. How many times have I hoped to see him or the other Hargreeves in this brick-walled alley? This time, I don't tell myself that Five is a dream. I can feel the golden particles of his power, even with my eyelids closed. (…)

"I'm so lost, Five… I just… want to go back to where we belong".

These are words straight from my heart. I once told Allison that I'd always feel at home if I could collapse on the same couch as Klaus again. Tonight, I don't even feel like I can do that anymore. I hear Five sigh, then keep silent for a moment. And finally, as if he needed to recite those lines over and over again, he utters into the night:

"Tell me about a complicated man, muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost". I look up a little, my red eyes above my crossed arms. He speaks a few more words, which I can't properly hear, and then : "Where he went, who he met, and the pain he suffered in the storms at sea… and how he worked to save his life and bring his men back home."

I don't know why, but his words instantly soothe me, as I identify them as coming from Homer's Odyssey. One of the few books I remember from my short time in high school. All of a sudden, my heart seems to calm down. Maybe it's because I feel a kind of parallel with our wanderings through space-time. Maybe because I believe that Five bears more responsibility than any of us, as if at the helm of the ship. And maybe… because there's this muted hope that - like Ulysses and despite all the ups and downs - one day we'll finally be able to go home for good.

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

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hidelias · 23 days

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🤗 🤗 🤗 I’m currently uploading “A bend in space-time” on Inkitt !

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Never mind the bollocks | Klaus's young years #5

This is the 5th one-shot about Klaus and Rin's young years >>> AO3 - Wattpad

Summary: Rin is a 20-year-old punk girl born with a strange power that she uses for illegal work: she can teleport, make herself invisible or intangible. Over several nights in police custody, just over a year ago, she met a strange cellmate named Klaus… also endowed with an extremely invasive power: that of communicating with the dead.

Once again, Rin has to pick up Klaus in the middle of the night, after one of his misadventures. This time, she has to fetch him… after a wild night at the Hotel Obsidian.

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The hotel itself was never really asleep. At any time of the day or night, its revolving doors were illuminated by an amber light, perpetually moving in a tranquil yet unsettling manner. I remember a strange feeling seizing me whenever I passed through them: as if I were entering a space outside the world. I thought it could be because there were no windows to the outside city, in the lobby or corridors. Or perhaps because 'what was happening in there would remain in there'.

And it was for the better, believe me. Because finding Klaus there at three o'clock in the morning - drunkenly slumped on the lobby sofas in minimalist iridescent briefs - was something you might want to forget. He was actually asleep, completely unnoticed by the few guests or staff who passed by. With that sad form of youthful innocence on his closed eyes, which he had in his twenties despite whatever might have happened in his night. Which he still has, in truth.

It was in such moments that I found his tattoo the saddest. Oh, not the 'Hello' and 'Goodbye' ones inked on his palms, no. The only other one he had at the time. The one you will most likely never see, but which the iridescent 'fabric' struggled to conceal in the faint light of the lobby.

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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 16: The crossroads of our lives]

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(…) David is always speaking to me with complete honesty. About his feelings, about Brian, about his vision of the world. What he admits to himself, anyway. I know he stayed outside precisely to talk to me about this. But this time I'm certainly shaking more than I should.

"It wasn't very smart to take Brian's seat," I whisper almost to myself, and to be honest, David isn't really listening to me. "He told me all sorts of things about the army, about the possibility of me enlisting, about what… might be happening in Southeast Asia in the next few years…"

He stretches out his oversized legs on the sidewalk. "Probably an anti-militarist who preached against the war. The enlistment office is three doors down from Stadler's." My eyes squint a little painfully. "Is that your saying, or is it Brian's?" He holds his breath for a moment, then lets it go. He'ss aware I know him well, by now. "It's Brian's." And before I'm tempted to hold back, I ask him: "And what do ~you~ think?"

As a customer enters the hardware store and Brian's voice of greeting is heard in the background, he looks up at the sky in his turn - for quite a while - but I give him all the time he needs to talk.

"That my enlistment is not a question that can still be doubted". "I was talking about the guy".

At my words, I see David's fingers tighten on the glass of his Coke bottle. He hadn't expected me to ask that, and he flinches in a way that might have made me smile if I hadn't been so sad now. Now that I can distinctly percieve the energy inside people, I can sense clearly the attraction that - he - will choose to ignore. And I clarify right away, to avoid any confusion that would disturb him even more:

"Do you think he was really a peacenik?" "Oh," he sighs with relief. "I don't know about that." Eventually, he brings the straw to his lips and drinks the entire contents in one gulp. "I suppose peaceniks don't say they love you."

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

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We're halfway through season 2, and once again I'd like to thank everyone who's encouraged me in this story, and arrived via Tumblr. I still feel so at home here! ❣️ Thank you so much! Have the greatest friday.

A bend in space-time || a TUA fanfiction

Thanks to everyone who reads and shares my stories!

I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

[A bend in space-time] - Season 1: AO3 - Wattpad - FFN [Complete] - Season 2: AO3 - Wattpad - FFN [Ongoing] - Snippets of Memory [Ongoing]: AO3 - Wattpad - A collection of one-shots recounting the young years of Klaus, through the eyes of Rin (the original character from 'A bend in space-time'

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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 15: The Scorpion and the Frog]

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(…) "I don't know what I'm supposed to do, Rin," he tells me, running a hand over his eyes, as if trying to come back to himself. He's often like that when he's tried hard to think, in vain. "If you tell me how it went, I can brainstorm with you," I tell him. "But I need Allison's coffee, so drag your ass to the kitchen, will you?"

He groans again, but gets up, and shuffles along behind me through the dining room to the dimly lit kitchen. I quickly spot the coffee pot promised as compensation for the inconvenience. Klaus drops down at the table, which is covered with an oilcloth tablecloth, and on top of which is an already opened chocolate box.

"So how did it go with David?", I ask as I pour myself a full mug, not intending to beat around the bush. And he sighs.

"He was there. Ryan too." "Brian." I turn back to him holding my mug. "He was there, okay. And?" Klaus shifts a little in his chair. "… He was wearing an apron."

I had expected a lot of things, from outpourings of tears to euphoric joy. But this, really, I hadn't anticipated at all. I suspect he hasn't discussed anything with Allison, and I can understand why he wanted to talk to me: I know David. And the truth is, I don't think Allison is aware of what happened in Vietnam. I don't even think she knows about his 2019 time jump.

"That's all? What the fuck, Klaus, did you just walk in and go around the hardware store and leave, or what?" He rocks back and forth a little, somewhat taken aback. "I bought some paint…" My eyebrows rise high on my forehead. "Paint?" "'Mamie pink'. He didn't have 'eggshell'." My brows pinch, as if I'm about to cry. With laughter. "No shit…"

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

Any comment will make my day! ♡

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A bend in space-time Season 2 - [Chapter 14: Jailhouse Rock]

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(…) We step onto the sidewalk and walk towards the entrance to the police station in the sunshine, Klaus's nonchalance only equalled by our invisible hilarity in his wake. He passes through the glass doors, then the wooden ones, into the austere, checkered-tiled corridor. He scans the premises, turns into the adjoining corridor where the reception counter is located… then says to the cop standing there, busy rummaging through his little lunch bag:

"Hello…" He glances at his name tag, his voice all honey. "… Brigadier Harris."

The guy seems more interested in the prospect of his sandwich than in him, but stares at his blue-and-orange striped shirt, unable to contextualize him. It has to be said that from yesterday's cult leader to today's simple beatnik, there's practically a world of difference, including in terms of haircut.

"I stayed in your comfortable facilities a short while ago," he tells him, "and I wanted to know if ~by chance~ you'd found my… my wedding ring. I seem to have lost it somewhere in here".

Klaus shows his ringless 'Goodbye' hand, and I nearly choke on a silent laugh. Brigadier Harris rummages around the counter in a drawer, then - finding nothing - says to him:

"I'll make a call downstairs and ask if they've found anything. You can have a seat in the waiting area." "You're an angel," Klaus replies with a smile, certainly too broad for the scenario he's interpreting. Then he turns on his heel and heads back down the corridor through which we arrived, settling into the available green armchairs as if he were at the beach.

The Brigadier's phone call only takes a minute, then he hangs up and returns to his eggs and mayonnaise sandwich, which he unwraps and places prominently on the counter in front of him. Clearly, it takes very little to brighten up his low-level police employee's day: he won't be disappointed. Ben doesn't see me, but I briefly make the neon lights on the ceiling flicker to let him know that I'm on track, and - safely hidden in my intangibility and invisibility - I step through the glass doors facing the counter. I give an inaudible laugh and make my way down the few steps to the cells aisle. I leave Ben to his own mischief: I know he'll be brilliant.

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I chose to insert an OC - Rin - into the plot of The Umbrella Academy, appearing almost only in deleted scenes. This fic is not a self-insert nor a OC-centric fic : Rin exists to flesh out the canon characters, and the fic is mostly focusing on Klaus. Please read the introduction for more details ♡

Any comment will make my day! ♡

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No tears left to cry | Klaus's young years #4

This is the 4th one-shot about Klaus and Rin's young years >>> AO3 - Wattpad

In this one-shot, I address Klaus's coping mechanisms, particularly in rehab. TW: References to drug use - Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - Sexuality (non-explicit) - Illness of a loved one.

Summary: Rin is a 20-year-old punk girl born with a strange power that she uses for illegal work: she can teleport, make herself invisible or intangible. Over several nights in police custody, just over a year ago, she met a strange cellmate named Klaus… also endowed with an extremely invasive power: that of communicating with the dead. That day, she walks through the doors of the Lakeshore Hills rehab facility to pick him up after his 30 days.

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"How did you handle the situation this time?"

I was well aware that his seemingly radiant attitude of the moment was possibly in no way representative of the way he had lived his 'stay'. At the half-way appointment and diagnosis, he'd literally been a rumpled old rag. He wouldn't talk about himself. But I knew that - if I asked - he'd share it with me. He shook his head, looking down at his Twinkies, his smile just fading.

"I was allowed to keep my music…"

His headphones were around his neck, and for - all his subsequent rehabs - this remained an absolute constant. Music helped him isolate himself from his power. The one on his walkman, the one at concerts, even the one I sometimes hummed. It wasn't a miracle cure, of course not. But it at least kept him in touch with reality and gave him a kind of endorphin rush capable of briefly damming up the spirits. And similarly, he added:

"…and I always had the option of banging one of those junkies".

It took me a long time to realize that Klaus's power was not only linked to death, but also to life. That this part of him would always be prominent, and that what may seem to the outsiders to be perverse frivolity was in fact as much a part of who he was as being a ghost magnet. One seemed to be able to counterbalance the other, for a while anyway, as if life's impulses could transiently take over: when he was having sex with anyone and for a while afterwards, the effect wasn't that different from a shot of ketamine.

You know how he is. He sought this effect, having undoubtedly rooted one of the many facets of his pansexuality. I always used to say that the 'P' in 'pan' stood - as far as he was concerned - for 'Pleasure', the A for 'Attraction' and the N for 'Necessity'. Unfortunately, we could have continued the list and added that the next S was all too often for 'Sustenance", when he was negotiating a place to sleep or funding for his dope. The final letter L for 'Love' - unfortunately for him - didn't enter the equation until years later, in its romantic meaning anyway. And that story didn't end well.

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Excerpt: Voices in the void - Snippets of Memory

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--- Summary: Rin is a 19-year-old punk girl born with a strange power that she uses for illegal work: she can teleport, make herself invisible or intangible. One evening, while in police custody, she met a strange cellmate named Klaus. After bribing the officer for getting her address, he came to visit her. They realized that they shared more than just nights in police custody: a date of birth, and having a power. Today, she visits him at the abandonned shed he's currently living in.

I was thinking that - last time - we didn't get into any details after all, that I was happy to be able to have this kind of conversation with him for the first time… But my train of thought had no time to go anywhere, as Klaus uttered, leaving me as frozen as he had been:

"I have no power. The ghosts are the ones having power over me." I blinked a few times, my eyebrows pinched, and asked him with a caution that at the time I was far from mastering: "You can't control it?"

I don't know if I could put into words the look he gave me. I realized that my words were an understatement. No, even worse: that I was four light years away from reality. He brought his overgrown teenage legs up against him on the mattress, grabbed his knees, and said, staring into the shadows of the old garden shed:

"I feel each one of them, and if I push one away, three come. What they felt when they died: their pain, their sorrow, their anger… they scream it to me, especially at night." He swallowed, still not looking at me. "Their fear, too, and I feel it tenfold."

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