" I need your help," I said. "When I was five years old I was possessed by a demon. And ever since then, it's stayed with me. Inside me. And when I read about Dr. Ram, I got an idea for a surgical technique - "

"We wrestle not with flesh and blood," she said. Not looking at me. "But against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world."

I waited, but she didn't say more.

"See, that doesn't really help," I said. "

― Daryl Gregory , Pandemonium