"The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters."
-Cassandra Claire, "Saving Raphael Santiago (The Bane Chronicles, #6)"
Delacroix was delighted with its Shadow minion. It slipped through every monster's grasp and got to the Human World. He was delighted because as the strongest of those in the Field of Ashes, he could see what the Shadow could, control the Shadow, make it come home too. He didn't plan on it coming home, though. No, not for a long time.
Delacroix watched as the Shadow spied on the Human female it attached itself to. She was crying in bed. It wondered why. It wondered if the female understood she was in more danger there than in Uithcoth. It wondered how it could kill her without alarming the Obayifo until it was too late.
Delacroix wanted to frighten the female so bad, her heart would stop. It wanted to watch the fear petrify her limbs, her lungs, her heart. It wanted to--
