“The boy doesn’t have enough room because the bird-man took up all space in his body.”
This picture made Keith think. Up to now, he’d thought that the soul went into an available human body in the third or the fourth month after conception as the process of reincarnation. He’d never heard of this bird-man figure before.
“So is this some kind of intruder? Are you sure that they are both in that body?”
“I’m sure,” Josh nodded firmly. “The boy is there with that thing, and it wants all the space for itself.”
“Is he suppressing the boy’s soul?”
“Yes, he flew onto it like a big bat. When he spreads his wings, he covers the boy’s whole body.”
“What do you think—is this another soul?”
“This is some kind of evil,” Josh explained, “extremely evil.”
“I understand. Do you think the boy can ge
