Echoes Of Darkness

Echoes Of Darkness

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Here we follow the footsteps of Adrian Addams, an orphan, a loner, a night crawler to the core who works for Jordan Cromwell, the city's most influential man's son. The city is going through some changes after 33 years of the separation, and Adrian is caught right in the middle of it. He's accustomed to the way of living where something strange is always happening, but something more sinister is going on. With the appearance of Jordan's little sister, and a Chief of Police that's always on his tail, he will soon find out.

Echoes Of Darkness Chapter 1 Intro

As the sun sets in Mofocity, the town slowly recedes into darkness. Most of the town's residents had returned to their homes, closed the curtains and locked their doors. There was nothing to see under the moonless sky.

For others, the day had only just begun. Every night, before going to work, he walked along the pavement as the street lights turned on and off. The censors enable them to sense when somebody was right underneath.

The Edge of the town was his favorite spot. A place where he can quiet the noise, contemplate his life and that small gap that was missing from his memory, a place of total blackness. Right on this spot was where Mofocity had been cut off from the rest of the world 33 years ago. It was the edge of the world.

Burning stars can be seen flickering in the sky and from their dim lights, vaguely he can see the silhouettes of The Floaters, floating still in the sky like hanging shadows of corpses ... waiting ... waiting to attack or waiting to disappear.

No one in town dared to visit the edges of Mofocity. Not this one, nor the other ones. This place bore myths and legends straight out of horror fiction and nobody wanted to see what's under the moonless sky.

But for Adrian, the dusk was when he started his day, in silence, as he glided into the night, sat quietly by The Edge, staring into the great big nothing. Sometimes he can hear a whistle or a hum, sometimes a crackle like a grinding of the teeth, they all came from the hanging shadows that had always been there since The Day of The Separation – as they call it. The sounds that soothed his ears while he drifted away in his thoughts.

Once he filled his cup, it was time to go back to the neon lights. He kept his pace while listening to the taps of the soles of his shoes and his steady breathing. Passing by the same windows of shops and diners along the way back to the club where he worked, where he lived.

He tucked his hands inside the pockets of his hoodie, counting backwards 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and watched the street light behind him turned off while the one above him turned on, guiding his way back to life.

About five street lights away from the club, he saw patrol lights of a police car. It was parked right in front of The Dungeon. He stood under the lamp to see what was going on. Chief Colby Jones stepped out of his car and took a quick glance at him before walking into the club. He was alone. At least it's not a raid like dozens of times before. But whenever Chief Colby Jones came with his patrol lights on, things were never 'just fine'.

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“Here we follow the footsteps of Adrian Addams, an orphan, a loner, a night crawler to the core who works for Jordan Cromwell, the city's most influential man's son. The city is going through some changes after 33 years of the separation, and Adrian is caught right in the middle of it. He's accustomed to the way of living where something strange is always happening, but something more sinister is going on. With the appearance of Jordan's little sister, and a Chief of Police that's always on his tail, he will soon find out.”
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Chapter 1 Intro

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Chapter 2 The Dungeon

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Chapter 3 The Pleasure Of This Visit

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Chapter 4 Closing Time

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Chapter 5 Rise And Shine

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Chapter 6 King Of The After Dark

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Chapter 7 Friday

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Chapter 8 The Master Planner

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Chapter 9 Survivors Of The Lost World

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Chapter 10 To The Basement We Go

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Chapter 11 The Long Night

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Chapter 12 The Unsolved Cases Of The Missing People

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Chapter 13 The Cromwell Estate

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Chapter 14 Dr. Leonard Bogdan Feelgood Personal Journal

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Chapter 15 A Good Day For A Sorbet

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Chapter 16 The Quiet One

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Chapter 17 Jordan

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Chapter 18 Home Sweet Hom

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Chapter 19 The Hour Glass

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Chapter 20 At The Break Of Dawn

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Chapter 21 Look At Me In The Eyes

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Chapter 22 Dark Times Are Coming

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Chapter 23 I'll Take You Home

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Chapter 24 The Morning After

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Chapter 25 The Unlikely Solution

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Chapter 26 A Night Visit

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Chapter 27 What Did You Do

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Chapter 28 Picking Up Where We Left Off

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Chapter 29 Sins Of The Father

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Chapter 30 For The Good Of The People

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Chapter 31 Adrian Is Missing

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Chapter 32 Patient's Journal, January 19th, 1985

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Chapter 33 The Future Is Uncertain

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Chapter 34 A Glimpse Of Nightmare

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Chapter 35 Letting Him Go

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Chapter 36 Welcome Honored Guests

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Chapter 37 Tip Toe

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Chapter 38 The Dinner

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Chapter 39 Time To Go

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Chapter 40 The Chase

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