He was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into an animal. All that could be seen in him was the urg… - Susan Cooper

The mindless ferocity of this man, and all those like him, their real loathing born of nothing more solid than insecurity and fear...It was a channel. Will knew that he had been gazing into the channel down which the powers of the Dark, if they gained their freedom, could ride in an instant to complete control of the earth.

Will saw the cruelty now as the fierce inevitability of nature. It was not from malice that the Light and the servants of the Light would ever hound the Dark, but from the nature of things.

Nothing is what it seems, boy. Expect nothing and fear nothing, here or anywhere. There’s your first lesson.