The second book in the series. It is five years later and once again the survival of the people of Ben's Valley is threatened. This time the threat comes from three fronts. An old enemy, a new global leader of the Perfects, and an evil that has been reborn.
Jacob holds the hunting knife ready to plunge it deep. He can hear murmurings from deep inside the cave. He peers around the edge of the opening and sees that the cave goes deep into the cliff. The cave is dark but he can see a tiny speck of light reflecting against the back wall.
He enters the cave, and pressing his back against the wall, he slowly, carefully, makes his way toward the light. The cave is damp and chilly; it has the odor of death.
About a hundred feet from the back wall, Jacob pauses; he can hear a voice softly whispering. He can’t make out the words but the tone is dripping sweetly. The sound makes his stomach turn and the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
Jacob's heart is pounding loudly in his chest. He knows this, somewhere in his mind he knows what he will find, but he can’t retrieve the memory, it dances out of reach each time his brain tries to grasp it. After several seconds, Jacob continues to move toward the back of the cave, his fear a cold hand around his heart.
The voice continues to coo from the hidden room at the back of the cave.
There is a loud half groan, half scream that echoes off the cave walls and causes Jacob to run. His hand, which holds the knife, trembles in a mixture of fear and anticipation of the act he will soon call upon it to do.
The back of the cave curves around into a small, enclosed nook about ten feet in diameter. Jacob races around the wall and into the nook where a horrible and terrifying sight assaults his eyes.
Logan Anderson stands before him completely naked, and one hand behind his back. A wide slash, which runs from just above the pubic bone to the center of the ribcage, has allowed everything that had been inside him to spill from his body where it hangs in a mass of large coiled ropes and thick gelatos organ tissue. Behind his ribcage, Jacob can see the beating of what should have been a heart. Instead, it is a diseased looking sack of green pus.
Behind Logan are hundreds of bodies, they have been stacked several feet high and several rows deep. The bodies are of men, women, and children. To Logan's left a large tapestry covers the wall. The tapestry depicts the abominable acts that Logan has committed.
Logan looks at Jacob with the eyes of a soulless abomination and says, "Hello Daddy, You want to play?"
Jacob stands frozen, eyes staring widely at the thing before him. When he speaks, it is just a weak whisper. "I killed you."
Logan pulls back the tapestry and says, "I have a present for you Daddy."
Jacob looks at the wall behind the tapestry and sees that it is the wall into which his son Jake had accidentally been entrapped during their attack on New Eden. Jacob sees the right side of Jakes face and the bomb where the left side should have been. The face, Jake's face speaks. Jacob screams in agony and Logan's laughter fills the cave.
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