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336%u201cNow, you will fuck the corpse of your dead wife. It is likely she will become seemingly alive. You must prepare yourself for this,%u201d Nancy said. %u201cPay no attention to anything else, not Jasmine shouting and pleading for you, or her screams. Just try to satisfy yourself in your dead wife.%u201d%u201cThis is very difficult for me,%u201d Ken said.%u201cThat%u2019s the point. You have to give him impression that there is no Jasmine, that you love Edith and believe her to be truly alive again. She isn%u2019t. She%u2019s a corpse, already decomposing. The more you pretend, the greater the attraction for the Devil to want to stay in her to keep itself amused by its seeming deception of you.%u201d Nancy told him. %u201cThe Dean will lock %u2018it%u2019 in her and Jasmine will be free.%u201dKen nodded.%u201cWe%u2019ll move back into the shadows until you begin.%u201d The Dean told him. %u201cJust focus on your role and pay no attention to anything else, no matter how desperate or how it pulls at your emotions. A lot of it will not be real, but the Devil playing mind tricks to see if it%u2019s caught you.%u201d Ken closed his eyes and the others moved away into the dark. When he opened them he could only see himself there and the two women on the stone, all caught like players in a spotlight on the stage of a horror play.He stepped forward and moved Edith%u2019s legs so they opened and were astride. A dark foul liquid was leaking from her vagina and bottom, staining the marble surface and filling the air with the sweet-sour repugnant scent of a long dead rat. He had once found one in a garden shed. The smell of death was the same. No doubt, he had thought, every soldier who had ever been in battle, every medic, every funeral undertaker, knew that smell.He climbed up onto the slab and knelt in the cone of amber light The Devil Drops By