Mason found his way into a city park, following the lure of water. He wanted a lengthy soak but knew it probably wasn"t wise. He felt jangled by the negative energy from that other Shade and its sticky wrongness. It clung to him, made his skin itch. He wanted to taste something cleaner. He found the pond and a place to stash his clothes and things before wading out into the water in just his underwear. This wasn"t a place he wanted to be found completely n***d.
The water wasn"t as clean as he"d like, not like the mountain streams and lakes that he loved, but it would do the job. It was cold and deep enough to let him sink into the dark and he wasted no time in swimming out to where the water was over his head and letting himself drift down into its icy embrace.
It was another thing that
