A human that wears darkness like a second skin. Hickey almost immediately has an idea of who this new bloke is talking about—though that might be simply because he looks remarkably like the man in question.

Wake (or at least, the man calling himself Alan Wake). Someone who claimed he was shaped by the Dark Presence, who was made of the same material, the same being as the Darkwalker. Part of what he's talking about must have been driven by the Darkwalker, driven by that madness instilled in all of them. But part of it must not be. Beliefs like that don't come out of nowhere.

Hickey looks over at Zane, ready to explain what he knows—only to see that the man's now sprouted cat ears.

Uh. What?

"You've got something on your head," he says, absolutely distracted for a moment.