... ruled by the overwhelming heartless powers of the "fade". Susan reads that when Paul finally found the boy, his sister's illegitimate child Ozzie, in a small town in Maine, he tried to save the deeply disturbed, abused and neglected Ozzie from the evil "fade", that had now implanted a commanding voice inside ... was extremely physically abusive and even once "knocked [Ozzie] down so hard it sent him reeling across the room" (215). Growing up in such an environment naturally turned Ozzie cold. When Ozzie discovers his ability to "fade" he uses it destructively to lash out on the world: "H...

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