Just before the dawn, the tenement door opens again. An ork emerges. He is a 
servant of the mage Adam Malik. Minutes later, Malik himself steps through the 
door and onto the street. Within his etheric form drifts a stygian blackness. 
This, Eliana knows, is the etheric form of a shadow spirit. The spirit has not 
only possessed the man. It has hidden its life inside him.