Closure feels like it should be part of healing. It feels like you should get the final conversation, the truthful explanation, the apology, or at least enough understanding to move forward without feeling like pieces are missing. But life does not always give us clean endings. Sometimes the chapter closes before we are ready. Sometimes people leave without explaining. Sometimes answers never come.

Some battles are fought with fists, others with fire. But the most haunting are the ones waged in the mind. In Chapter 7 of Book I of S.O.L.A.D.™, titled "Memories of the Living Dead," Melanie faces one of the most unsettling forms of spiritual warfare: a direct assault on both her body and mind. The demonic villain Plague attacks with sickness and distortion, overwhelming Melanie physically with fever and emotionally with the shocking reappearance of her family.