QUOTE : Hell is a place, so the good priests taught me. This beyond was no place. It was dry and empty, and it was cruel beyond physical pain. It was where you can see the living wasting their lives, and where you drain the substance from each other.’ ‘Each other? You weren’t alone?’ ‘There was millions of us. Souls beyond the counting of a simple Ballymena lad like myself.’ ‘You say you can see the living from the other side?’ ‘From the beyond, yes. ’Tis like through a foggy window. But you strive to make out what it is that’s happening in the living world. All the time you strive. And you yearn for it, you yearn for it so hard, lass, that you feel your heart should be bursting apart. I saw wonders and I saw terrors, and I could touch neither.