familiar loss when abernathy met his strange demise , i felt it as i would have felt my own : the piercing talons gouging out his eyes elicited much more than just a groan ; his psychic screams were loud and full of pain ; they rattled through my mind like broken glass ; i felt the creature striking out again and went with him into the gray morass ; his screams turned into whispers on the wind and faded slowly to a silent pall .