Editing Doom of Edith James (section)

==Description==
The Doom of Edith James changes throughout the story it always has Edith's face on it.

At the height of its power it is the size of a small building, formless and shifting, manifesting tentacles and scythe-like limbs as well as the crying form or face of Edith. It may be white with black highlights,<ref>It poured out of him, pale and twisted, fighting to get loose and doing everything it could to hurt him on the way out.  A mass closer to the size of a house than the size of a man, escaping his two hundred pound frame in a matter of seconds.<br>[...]<br>White shot through with inky darkness and veins.  The body was without set form, and for one moment, it was a morass of something between flesh and smoke, its back half like a kraken, the front half like a praying mantis, but with Edith’s face mounted atop it, twisted with emotion and crying darkness. It picked up the red haired woman, not by closing a limb around her, but by sliding one of those scythe-like limbs beneath her and holding her against the hard edge by the force with which it moved her around, instead.<br><br>In the next moment, it was closer to a bull, hunched over, muscular, and head low, surging forward, to separate Matthew from the drenched woman. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]</ref> or a shifting mass of shadows,<ref>Shadows shifted.  Matthew had let out the Doom, and it surged. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/27/ excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.9]]</ref> but is most often an oily black.<ref>Host of the Doom of Edith James.  Big, oily black, dangerous. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/11 excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.1]]</ref><ref>The Doom came, in through the bedroom window, through the bedroom door, and down the hall.   [...] There, it stopped.  The oily blackness of it consolidated briefly into a macabre version of Edith, then it receded. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/04 excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.11]]</ref><ref>The Doom poured out of him, flowing out as something black and oily, taking on a shape that momentarily resembled Edith, then tore that same image apart.<br><br>It flowed along a course that stayed out of sight of the car, carrying the milk.<br><br>Going over the little hut with the candy, milk, Tashlit, and the glowing guy inside.  Hurling the milk into the air.<br><br>The jugs were torn open as they were mid air, by way of many small claws. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/19 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.5]]</ref>

When it was weaker, it was initially unable to appear as anything but a symbol in susceptible people and things - a voice in static, the rambling of a person with a concussion, etc. Then as it grew stronger it began to appear as a sleek, faceless thing.<ref name=":2">“The Doom that chased me would settle down, seeking traction where it could find it.  It would occupy places, things, people.”<br><br>“Hallows?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Shallow and incidental ones, yes.  There weren’t many prepared ones I was aware of.  It would be a voice in the radio static of a television left on overnight, the words shouted by a person left insensate after a car accident.  As it gained more strength, it would take on forms in reality.  Sleek figures without a face or any features.  Slow to move at first, then faster, bigger, stronger.  Either it would draw the attention of practitioners and forces in the area, like hostile Bogeymen or Goblins, hoping they would end me, or I would have to fight back, to diminish that Doom, or stave off the attacks… and ''that'' would draw the attention of practitioners.  Then I would leave, going to the next small town, the next place out in the middle of nowhere that was willing to give food and shelter to a girl with twenty dollars in her pocket.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/ Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.5]]</ref>

During his [[Host Magic|hosting]] of it [[Matthew Moss]]' eyes are shadowed (especially to the [[Sight]]), and when it presses close to the surface the [[Diagram|diagrams]] [[binding]] it turn black.<ref name=":0">Matthew looked uncomfortable in his own skin, rubbing at his neck, 
then his wrist.  In the wake of the rubbing, bindings appeared, magic circles and lines drawn out on skin, in what could’ve been flesh-tone ink on flesh, glowing black as they were agitated. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/back-away-5-2/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref>
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