Another brand-new offering! Jennifer, bless her, wanted a Shane/Myrnin story as part of her Kickstarter contribution, and I was happy to oblige. So here is Shane, and Myrnin, and a tie-in to a story earlier in this collection: ‘Nothing like an Angel.’ If you read them back-to-back, you’ll see why I say that; events in this particular story feed into events in that one, though it might not be obvious without a closer look. We get graveyards, corpses, mysterious alchemical machines, time travel (maybe), and the payoff on a romance that I built between Bitter Blood through to Daylighters. This story occurs after the end of the series, so you may think of it as an epilogue, of sorts. No matter how many times I destroy Myrnin’s lab, I always want to rebuild it and bring it back as a setting, because it so perfectly reflects the state of the inside of his mind. ‘Pitch-Black’ refers to many things in this story, not the least of which is the state of Myrnin’s mind at various times in his history.