Oct. 26, 2025

Halloween Possession - (Episode 5 of 5) - "Halloween Transmission"

Halloween Possession - (Episode 5 of 5) - "Halloween Transmission"

Halloween night brings the final confrontation as Mara and Ethan use their merged electromagnetic field to power Salem's massive trap. Standing as bait in the center of the festival, they must hold the entity while every light in Salem feeds power through them. With the help of the trapped women's consciousness fighting from within, they destroy the entity forever. Free at last to give in to their desire, their consummation as permanently merged beings literally blows the power grid. One year later, they've embraced their new existence as supernatural investigators and guardians of Salem, bound together in a love that transcends normal human connection.

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Calarogu Shark Media. Hello and welcome to Romance Weekly and

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Halloween Possession. This is episode five, Halloween Transmission. I had

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to choose safety or him, the smart thing, or the

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thing that made me feel like electricity was replacing my blood.

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You already know what I chose, or I wouldn't be

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telling you this story. It was Halloween night and Salem

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was electric with more than just our merged electromagnetic field.

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The streets throat with thousands of costumed bodies, all converging

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on the common for the midnight festival finale. They had

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no idea they were walking into the largest supernatural trap

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ever constructed. Ethan stood behind me in our apartment, His apartment,

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our apartment. The words didn't matter anymore, because everything was

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ours now. His hands rested on my shoulders, and I

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felt the touch from both sides, his palms on my skin,

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my shoulders under his palms. Four days of this complete connection,

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and it still made me dizzy. You're scared, he said,

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not a question. He could feel my fear as clearly

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as his own. Terrified, I turned to face him, and

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our bodies moved in perfect synchronization, like a dance we'd

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always known. The entity is out there, wounded, angry, and

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it wants us dead. It wants us absorbed. He corrected

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his thumb, tracing my jawline. The sensation rippled through both

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of us. Dead would be merciful through our connection, I

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felt what he wasn't saying. The entity had been reforming

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all day, pulling its scattered pieces back together. We could

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both sense it, a darkness gathering at the edges of Salem,

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waiting for midnight, when the veil would be thinnest. We

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could run, I said, though we both knew we wouldn't

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leave Salem. Let someone else be the trap. There is

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no one else. His forehead touched mine, and our shared

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consciousness spiraled deeper. No one else has what we have.

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What we had, a complete electromagnetic merger that had turned

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us into something new. We'd spent four days learning to function,

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how to be apart for short periods despite the discomfort,

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how to shield each other from the most private thoughts,

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how to not go insane from feeling everything. Twice. We'd

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also spent four days fighting the inevitable. Every night lying

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in bed, our bodies crying out for each other while

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we held ourselves apart because we knew once we gave in,

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once we fully consummated this connection, there would be no

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going back. The merge would be complete on every level.

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We'd never be able to pretend to be separate people again.

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Mara Lily's voice from the living room, it's time to go.

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My sister had recovered remarkably from her near dispersal, though

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she now had a white streak in her blonde hair

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where the end is had started to unravel her. Marcus

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said it was permanent, a scar in her electromagnetic field

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made visible five minutes. I called back. Ethan's hands slid

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down to my waist. Are you ready for this? The trap?

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Or what comes after? Both through our connection, I felt

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his hunger. Four days of forced celibacy, when we could

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feel each other's desire constantly, four days of knowing exactly

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what the other wanted needed craved, Four days of resistance

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that had only made the want sharper. After we trigger

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the trap, I said, if we survive, when we survive,

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when we survive, I agreed, We're going to come back here,

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and I'm going to let you do every single thing

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You've been thinking about for the past four days. His

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grip tightened and I felt his control fracture. You can

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feel all of those thoughts everyone, and I have some

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of my own to add. He kissed me hard and desperate,

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and the world exploded with sensation. But we'd learned control

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these past days. We could kiss without losing ourselves completely.

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We could touch without dissolving into pure energy most of

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the time. If you two are done trying to burn

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down the apartment with sexual tension, Lily called, we have

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an ancient entity to kill. The walk to the common

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was surreal. Salem on Halloween night was always intense, but

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knowing what was coming made every costumed reveler look like

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a potential threat. The entity could be in any of them,

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or all of them. Marcus met us at the festival

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entrance with a bag of equipment. The traps armed every booth,

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every wire, every bulb is part of the circuit. At midnight,

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when you two go to the center stage, we light

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up like bait I finished. The entity comes for us,

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The trap springs, and hopefully we don't get dispersed in

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the process. I've made modifications, he said, not meeting our eyes,

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grounding wires that should keep you anchored. Should that's reassuring

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Lily muttered. The festival was in full swing, carnival games,

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food stores, a band playing covers of monster ballads, normal

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except for the electromagnetic readings. Marcus was tracking on his phone.

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The whole common was one massive circuit waiting to be completed.

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Half an hour until midnight. Ethan said, though I already

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knew I could feel time through his awareness, now could

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feel everything through him. We walked through the festival, and

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I noticed how people unconsciously moved away from us. Our

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merged field was too strong. Two other we made humans

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nervous on a primal level. There, Lily pointed at the

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cotton candy stand stood Rebecca Torres, all the thing wearing

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her face. She was serving pink spun sugar to children,

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smiling with empty eyes. It's taunting us, Ethan said. More

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of them appeared as we watched Emma at the ring toss,

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Sarah at the fortune teller's booth, All the women the

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entity had taken over the years, puppeted by fragments of

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the creature. We'd wounded but not killed. Ten minutes, Marcus said,

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you should get in position. The center stage was a

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raised platform decorated with pumpkins and corn stalks, very harvest festival,

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very innocent. No one would guess it was the focal

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point of an electromagnetic trap designed to destroy an entity

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that fed on human consciousness. Ethan and I climbed the steps,

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and I felt the circuit recognize us. The lights flickered,

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just for a second. The entity felt it too. All

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around the festival, the empty women turned toward us. Five minutes.

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My heart was racing, or maybe it was Ethan's. Did

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it matter anymore? We stood back to back on the stage,

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watching the crowd, waiting whatever happens, he said, and I

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felt the words resonate through our shared bones. I love you,

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I know, I said, I can feel it. That must

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be convenient, he said, with dark humor, never having to wonder.

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I don't need to wonder about anything with you anymore.

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Is that good or bad? Ask me in fifty years

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you said that before I meant it. One minute to midnight,

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the empty women were pushing through the crowd, now converging

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on the stage. The humans couldn't see them properly, their

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minds sliding off the wrongness, but they felt the threat.

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The crowd was backing away, leaving us exposed. Thirty seconds.

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I took Ethan's hand, and our merged field flared to life.

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We were a beacon, now broadcasting our position to everything supernatural.

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Within one hundred miles. Ten seconds, the empty women reached

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the stage. Five. They smiled with stolen faces. Three two,

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one midnight. The bells of Salem told, and the entity

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struck not just through the empty women, but from everywhere

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at once. It rose from the earth, fell from the sky,

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emerged from the spaces between seconds. It had been hiding

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in the crowd all along, dispersed through thousands of electromagnetic fields,

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waiting now it converged on us with the hunger of

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a starving god. The trap activated. The moment it touched

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our merged field, every light in the festival exploded into brilliance.

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The circuit came alive, channeling massive amounts of electromagnetic energy

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through the common through us. I screamed, or Ethan did,

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or we both did. The energy was tearing us apart

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and rebuilding us a thousand times a second. I could

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feel the entity trying to disperse us, to add our

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consciousness to its collection, but the trap held it in place,

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forcing it to maintain cohesion even as it tried to

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feed hold on. Marcus shouted from somewhere far away. Sixty seconds,

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sixty seconds, we'd lasted thirty in the haunted house and

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nearly died. Sixty would kill us. But then I felt them,

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the other women, the ones the entity had taken, Rebecca, Emma, Sarah,

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dozens of others. They were still there, fragments of consciousness,

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trapped in the entity's hunger, and they were fighting back

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end this. Rebecca's voice whispered through the electromagnetic field. We're

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ready to let go. They turned the entity's power against itself,

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using their stolen energy to fuel the trap. It blazed brighter,

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pulling electricity from every building in Salem. Street lights exploded,

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car alarms shrieked. The entire city's power grid fed into

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the trap. The entity tried to retreat, but we held

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it Ethan and I opened our merged field, completely, becoming

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a black hole of electromagnetic attraction that it couldn't escape.

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We were bait, trap, and weapon, all at once. Thirty seconds,

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I felt myself fragmenting despite the grounding wires. My consciousness

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scattered across the electromagnetic spectrum, but everywhere I dispersed Ethan

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was there, holding me together, maintaining the pattern of who

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I was, who we were. Fifteen seconds, the entity made

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one last desperate attempt. It offered us everything, immortality, power,

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the ability to absorb consciousness like it did. We could

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become gods of the electromagnetic spectrum. All we had to

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do was let go of ourselves, let go of each other. Never,

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we said in unison. The trap reached critical mass. The

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entity screamed with a hundred stolen voices as it was

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torn apart, its core consciousness shredded and scattered so thoroughly

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that it could never reform. The empty women collapsed, finally free,

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the trapped fragments of consciousness dispersed into peace. The lights

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went out, all of them, every light in Salem, plunging

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the city into darkness. In that darkness, Ethan and I

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fell into each other. We were barely conscious, barely cohesive,

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but we were alive, somehow impossibly alive. It's done, Marcus's voice,

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accompanied by the beam of a flashlight. The entity is gone,

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completely dispersed. The women I managed to ask free. They

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can't be brought back. They've been gone too long, but

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they're not trapped anymore. Lily's arms around me, around us.

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You did it, You insane electromagnetically codependent idiots did it.

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Emergency lights were coming on throughout the festival. People were

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milling about, confused but unharmed. They'd remember this as the

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year the Halloween Festival blew the power grid. A funny

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story to tell, nothing supernatural about it. Ethan helped me

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stand though we were both shaking. The merge had held,

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but barely. We were raw, oversensitized, feeling everything twice as

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intensely as before. Home, He asked home. Marcus drove us

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back to the apartment, Lily fussing over us the whole way,

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But all I could focus on was Ethan's hand in

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mine and the promise of what came next. We'd survived.

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The entity was gone. There was nothing left to resist.

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The moment the apartment door closed behind us, four days

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of suppressed desire crashed over us like a tide. Mara,

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he breathed, and I felt my name resonate through his

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entire being. I know, I said, I can feel it,

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all of it. We came together like magnets, like gravity,

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like inevitability. Our mouths met, and this time we didn't

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hold back. The kiss was everything, physical sensation and electromagnetic connection,

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his desire and mind amplifying each other in an endless

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feedback loop. His hands were in my hair, on my waist, everywhere,

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and I felt it all twice, his hands on me,

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my body under his hands. When he lifted me onto

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the kitchen counter, I felt his strength and my weight.

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When I wrapped my legs around him, I felt the

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pressure from both sides. Bed I gasped. We barely made it,

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shedding clothes in a trail from kitchen to bedroom. Each

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piece of fabric removed was a revelation felt twice. His

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skin against mine created cascading waves of sensation that threatened

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to overwhelm us both. When he touched me, really touched me,

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I cried out from the intensity. I felt his fingers

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on me, and through his perception, felt what I felt

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like to him, Hot, wet, perfect. The dual sensation was

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almost too much. Look at me, he said, and when

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our eyes met, the connection deepened impossibly further. We moved together,

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every touch, every kiss, every breath shared between us. When

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he entered me, we both gasped, feeling it from both sides,

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the push and the yield the fullness and the surrounding warmth.

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It was overwhelming, invasive, the most intimate thing I'd ever experienced.

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We found a rhythm, slow at first, learning how to

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move as one consciousness in two bodies, But soon the

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careful control shattered. Four days of want, the adrenaline of survival,

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the complete trust of our merge, it all combined into

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something primal and desperate. I felt his climax building with mine,

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the sensations spiraling between us, amplifying with each pass. When

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we came it was together, always together. Now the pleasure

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doubled and reflected into something that whited out our entire consciousness.

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We lay tangled afterward, our bodies still synchronizing, our breathing,

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our heart beats. Through our connection. I felt his wonder,

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his satisfaction, his love, all of it mixing with mine

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until I couldn't separate the emotions anymore. So I said,

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eventually that was yeah. Want to do it again? Give

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me five minutes, he laughed, I'm still seeing stars. Literally,

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your electromagnetic field is making aurora patterns on the ceiling.

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I looked up. He was right. Our merged field was

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painting lights across the room, beautiful and impossible. We're never

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going to be normal, are we? I asked, we were

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never normal to begin with. He pulled me closer and

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I felt the comfort from both sides. Besides, normal is overrated.

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My phone buzzed, Lily, did you two just blow the

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power grid again? The lights went out for three blocks.

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I showed Ethan the text and we both laughed. We're

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going to have to get better control, I said, or

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move somewhere with better infrastructure or that. We lay in

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comfortable silence, our merged consciousness humming with contentment. The entity

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was gone, Seleem was safe. We'd survived something that should

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have destroyed us and came out stronger. Different, definitely changed

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on a fundamental level, but stronger. Hey, Ethan said, suddenly,

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what's your last name? I laughed so hard the lights flickered,

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urged consciousness fought an ancient entity, just had electromagnetic sex

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that literally blew the power grid, and you don't know

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my last name. We've known each other two weeks, Chen Mara,

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Chen Ethan Blackwood. He said formally, nice to meet you.

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Nice to meet you too. We were quiet for a moment.

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Then he said, in fifty years, when you decide if

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this was worth it. Yeah, I hope the answer is yes.

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I turned in his arms, looking at this man I

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was permanently bound to, who knew my every thought and feeling,

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who I could never leave or lie to or hide from.

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This man who'd held me together when I was literally

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coming apart, who loved me completely despite knowing all my flaws,

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because he could feel them as his own. Ask me

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again tomorrow, I said, not fifty years tomorrow, and the

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day after that, and the day after that, every day

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for fifty years through our connection. I felt his joy,

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bright and warm as summer lightning. Deal he said, and

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kissed me. The lights flickered again. We really were going

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to need to work on that epilogue. One year later,

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I'm recording this on Halloween night, one year after the

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entity died. Ethan is beside me on the couch, not touching,

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but present in my consciousness as always. We've learned to

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function almost normally. Now. We can be apart for hours,

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even different cities for a day or two, but we

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always come back to each other. We have to. We're

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two halves of one electromagnetic whole. Lilian Marcus got married

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last month. The wedding was beauty, though they had to

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have it outside Salem to avoid electromagnetic interference from all

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of us together, my podcast, Vanished Voices has become the

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number one supernatural investigation show in the country. Turns out,

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having a genuine electromagnetic connection to the paranormal makes for

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compelling content. Ethan and I investigate cases together now, following

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electromagnetic signatures that only weaken sense. We've found three others

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like us, people with the gift, the curse, whatever you

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want to call it. We're teaching them control, helping them

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understand what they are before something like the entity finds them.

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Because there are other things out there, things that hunt consciousness,

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that feed on connection. The Entity was just one of many,

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but now we know how to fight them. Salem is

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quiet tonight. The Halloween festival went off without a single

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supernatural incident. The trap is still there, woven into the

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city's infrastructure, ready if needed, but nothing has come hunting.

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Maybe because word has spread in whatever realm these things

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exist in, Salem is protected, Salem has guardians, or maybe

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it's just a quiet year. Either way, I'm here, We're here, watching,

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waiting together, always together, And you know what I wouldn't

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have it any other way. Ask me again in forty

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nine years