An Entity of Darkness

“Pull a rabbit out of a hat my boy, pull a rabbit out of a hat!”

That's precisely what was needed right now for sure. These words he reheard in his mind, just as though his father was saying them.

On his very first experiment, where he had to light the burner beneath the shining beaker, his father had said this with gusto. But where now are the rabbits?

Ever since that day Johnstone Senior had imparted to him the confidence to try for things that he never thought possible. At an early age Calvin had the ability to believe that he really could pull a rabbit out of a hat - that he could manifest the extraordinary. Having also the confidence of a multi-millionaire's son didn't hurt either. His sense of expectation was always strong.
And, from a complicated industry he had been shown the extravagance of Nature's own designs.

He had mixed and mingled fluids and vapours, cells and their nano's - to find that bacteria had personality; and that life could spring up as though out from nowhere. Spontaneous generation was a reality, even if the doors to the other-world that they came from were invisible.

However all of this magic had turned upon them now; in ways they could never have foreseen or invited.

The ‘rabbit’ became an entity of darkness, and Calvin felt it quiver in the empty sack of his stomach.

- Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances