Dustin swallowed hard, the man had known she was there the whole time. He had power... Was it power over life and death? Or simply a foul plague... 

Yet, what he had told the other man inside. Perhaps he was not the bringer of darkness, like she had first suspected. Perhaps he followed it, as he said, [i]hunted[/i] it. 

If that were true, the thing he hunted must be much worse than what this man appeared to be.