Chapter 17: Clay Pot Alchemy

"Then I'll head back first. I'll come see you and your mom again tomorrow." Marlee Juggins yawned, didn't linger, and slipped out after a quick goodbye. Once outside the hospital, she glanced over her shoulder. Not seeing Jason Yare anywhere, she felt a flicker of disappointment and murmured, "Maybe he's wiped out too." Back in the hospital room- Jason froze. He recognized that Black Energy all too well. He'd seen it clinging to the eerie thing in Dragon Lake and to the mysterious old man-and...