"I guess you can say they're like a servant of the Entities with incredible, supernatural powers. There is a woman named Katie Dunn, who was an Avatar of the Dark. She was creating blackouts, and altering people's mental states, making regular people want to smash all the lights in the area, that kind of thing. She herself was made up of shadows, she could control them..."

He takes a deep breath, wondering what she must think of him at this point.

"I tried to stop her, thought that maybe she would change, that she wouldn't want to hurt people? But it didn't work. And she attacked me with her claws."

Yep. This world is just like this.

"It was like I couldn't see the world for what it was for some time, it was nothing but sheer terror...lucky my friend Dr. Carter came up with a really good phototherapy treatment for people affected by this."