Hi. I'm Alex Walker. Ten years old, all elbows, and the strongest thing about me used to be my smell.

No parents. They left me a box and disappeared. Inside the box was a ring. The ring shook. I told myself I was tired.

I was not tired.

Now there's a girl living in my head who won't tell me her real name, a screen in front of my eyes with numbers that go up when I eat things I really shouldn't be eating, and a lot of monsters who'd like a word.

Is it gross? Yes.

Does it work? Also yes.

Go from walking lollipop to something the Hunters can't explain, one bad meal at a time.

...What do you mean, "what's the catch"?

Condition: Hold Darkness below 10% output for one continuous hour


"Denied?" he said. "DENIED? You can't hand me a present and then take it back! That's not a reward. That's a mugging!"


"Kid," Selina called down from the top. "Who are you shouting at?"


'An hour, Luna. A whole hour! I held that drip for ten seconds and my head nearly popped!'


'That's what people say when you're really, really bad at something.'


He went up to his cot in the corner of the hall and lay down between a man with a broken arm and a man who snored. Then he tried it. One drop. Hand on the tap.


Chapter 120 - Chapter 120 - Two Days