"More... The first couple. He was quiet. At first my parents thought he was just a very mature child... But he... Scared Samantha and I as children. Ryan and I shared a room, and every night.... I could swear I could hear a whispering, a sort of malicious words and phrases." Ryker pauses. "Something followed my brother. I don't know what. But something that was evil. It continued, but lessened the older we got. By 8th grade it was gone."

Akron had cut his finger on the knife while he was listening. He intently watched some of his blood glisten on the table. He hardened the wound stopping the blood flow but he continued to watch the puddle on the table. "How did he die?"

"My brother and I had started a scientific research foundry together. We were out of college, barely any money, hoping to get rich. We were working on technology for interdimensional rifts. Harnessing them." He pauses, thinking about their stupidity. "We thought maybe we could control them. Bend them so others could travel. We attempted to open a controlled one, Samantha was with us. The portal began sucking everything into it, like a vacuum in space. We were all hanging onto something, a piece of wall. I was slowly crawling my way across the floor to the control panel to shut off the gate. As I hit the button to close it, Ryan was sucked in. I thought he was dead, but somewhere... I knew... He was still alive."