Character interview with Sebastian Colby

Interview with Sebastian Colby
Catina: Thank you so much Sebastian for stopping by and doing an interview for us. I know you are busy with the Inquisitors, but it is still greatly appreciated. 

Catina: Tell me about yourself?
Sebastian: My name is Sebastian Colby PhD, I used be a research chemist. I was married, had a home and a dog, we were expecting out first child. That changed when I found a strange book, what I now know is a grimoire. A witch wanted is and sent one her minions to retrieve it. I was framed for the murder, and sent for a psychiatric evaluation awaiting trial. I was rescued, and fully exposed to the hidden world, one of madness magic and monsters. Now I'm Brother Sebastian, and I hunt witches.

Catina: What is your occupation?
Sebastian: To most I am a monk with of the Poor Brothers of Gethsemane, a minor order of the Benedictines but really part of the secret Order of Inquisitors. As we are some of the few who can see magic, we are charged with protecting the innocent.

Catina: Do you enjoy every bit of it?
Sebastian: I was a scientist, exposing me to things like magic and monsters was a huge shock. I'm still processing it. I believe, but it's hard. I'm new and not confident in my ability to do my job. I have doubts, and the things I see grate on my mind, the things I do make me feel unclean at times.

Catina: Can you tell us a little bit about your family?
Sebastian: Sarah, my wife, is dead, my in-laws think I killed their daughter. I am still wanted in connection with her death. My new family is made up of men like me. Inquisitors. I'm still unsure if I fit in, or for how long I can do this job.

Catina: If you could change something about your life what would it be?
Sebastian: I want to go back to the way things were, before I even laid eyes on that grimoire. That I was still ignorant of the hidden world.

Catina: What is your favorite memory?
Sebastian: Sarah playing her cello naked, her long red hair framing her face, and what happened next.

Catina: What are you most afraid of?
Sebastian: That my dead wife will never forgive me, that I can never avenge her, and that I will not be with her when I die.

Catina: Which talent would you most like to have?
Sebastian: To play the violin, to honor my wife who was a cellist. Maybe if I can learn I can get her forgiveness for failing her, for letting her die.

Catina: What are you especially proud of in your life?
Sebastian: At the moment I have very little to be proud of; I survive.

Catina: How do you decide you can trust someone?
Sebastian: For most people I can't only other Inquisitors.

Catina: What is your most treasured possession?
Sebastian: I have a wedding picture of me and my wife that I keep, even though it is a breach of tradecraft.

Catina: What is your motto?
Sebastian: Vengeance first, forgiveness in time.

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Book Blitz: Junior Inquisitor by Lincoln Farish

Junior Inquisitor by Lincoln Farish
Genre: Dark Urban Fiction / Horror
Published by: Smashwords Edition on March 1st 2015
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Brother Sebastian is halfway up a mountain in Vermont, hell-bent on interrogating an old woman in ashack, when he gets the order to abandon his quest for personal vengeance. He has to find a missing Inquisitor, or, more likely, his remains. He’s reluctant, to say the least. Not only will he have to stop chasing the best potential lead he’s had in years, this job—his first solo mission—will mean setting foot in the grubby black hole of Providence, Rhode Island. And, somehow, it only gets worse… If he’d known he would end up ass deep in witches, werewolves, and ogres, and that this mission would jeopardize not only his sanity but also his immortal soul, he never would’ve answered the damn phone.

Excerpt: 

I took another step into the shop, pushing against the waves of evil. On the next set of shelves, I saw a severed hand in a large clear jar. The hand of a slain witch contains the knowledge of the deceased. The possessor then has that knowledge, all her spells and tricks. It’s one of the reasons witches were burned years ago...

A flash of movement from the other side of the room caught my eye. Two handmade Raggedy Ann style dolls were each held fast to the counter by a small black iron chain. The dolls were sitting slumped, as though alive and waiting for release. High-pitched, girlish voices came from them, full of hate, malice, and insanity. A sign in front of them said they were Hogaana Dolls.

A summoned spirit—a soul called from Hell—can be captured and enslaved by a strong or skilled witch. Trapped between here and Hell, the spirit can act as an oracle and tutor—a guide for witches trying to learn and experience new levels of power and what I’d call madness but she would refer to as “clear thinking” or “a deeper understanding.” The drawback is that a spirit is still ethereal and can escape easily unless tightly contained and constantly fed power to keep it here. The bound spirit can be transferred into a vessel to contain it in a form, a body...

My hands were shaking, my stomach roiled, and my eyes stung from the candles and incense. I wanted to flee...

I needed to leave and report back. This was beyond my abilities.

When I looked up, a tall, thin woman was staring at me from behind the counter. Her gray hair grew in clumps between patches of gnarled burn scars. She was dressed in a tight jumpsuit, stained with blood. Rings covered her hands, and I saw the deep purple of porphyrite in one.

Her face had an odd twist to it, as though someone had taken a screw, driven it into her nose, and turned it. She was a Screwface—a witch who thrived on pain and torture. A witch I wasn’t capable of breaking, or even dealing with. And now it was too late for me to escape.

Only a very special type of Inquisitor—a man without empathy, one who would be called a sociopath in the regular world—could deal with them. Formed into teams called Hammers, they’re elite, but they die even faster than regular Inquisitors. Not only do they train longer and harder than my regular Brethren, they receive special instruction on how to deal with Screwfaces. And despite all this training and conditioning, they’re still sometimes reduced to a pitiful weeping mess after one of their Purges.

Her smile reeked of madness and pain.

One of the dolls moved and shrilled, “Make it bleed.”

She glanced at it then raised the hand with the porphyrite ring, which was glowing and snapping in a purple and black nimbus. She was unleashing some spell; only magic was that mind-bending color. “Goodbye, false monk.”

About the Author:

Called an adventurer and quite possibly insane, Lincoln has traveled to many continents and countries on his own and at his country’s behest to determine from whence the darkness comes. Despite persistent rumors, Lincoln maintains that he had nothing to do with the tiger, was not involved in illicit wiener dog races, and has never used his knowledge of genetics to create a better life form.

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