E/O challenge. Word: weight. Extra challenge: "Ghostfacers"

Summary: Just a few weeks to live before hellhounds would drag him to hell. But some things are worse than dying. Dying alone - for example.

Thanks to Kathydid43 for lovingly guiding me through the maze of American English :-)

They'd stacked the withered corpses on the floor to burn them.

The last guests of a never-ending birthday party, dressed for a terrifying dance macabre. He sat on the damp ground, sick and tired of it all.

Pondering what loneliness could do to ordinary people.

Knowing what it could do to a hunter. What it would do to Sam after he was gone for good.

He didn't turn when he felt the warm weight of his brother's hand on his shoulder.

But he drew comfort from it.

As long as they were together, he would fight.

Even without hope.