other. Young Vance had never felt anything
for the emotionally distant Basil, but was drawn to benevolent Cary
Bradcroft. Where they parted company was over the mad god Vaikuntha,
which Grey was beginning a coven for – a coven infused with a Hindu/ neo-pagan/ scorched
earth vibe. Cary's concern was enormous, especially as she had
befriended Katherine Van Juss, sorceress and a lover of Cary's on
occasion. Cary's daughter Sarah was Katherine Van Juss'' though she
was married to the mage Janos Disraeli, which whom Katherine had a
son, Griffin (later known as Rory Sabbath).

Janos confronted Grey over
Vaikuntha. They fought; Grey was killed. Janos was afraid his
delicate balance of power with the Shadow Baron would be ruined. He
made it appear that Biazel had done the deed. The bottom line was
that Janos slew Grey, for her evilintentions regarding Vaikuntha's
imminent manifestation were bearing deadly fruit. As for Vance
Parminter, he always believed his mother was slain by her lover Cary
Bradcroft. Grey had convinced her son to become a lifelong acolyte of
Vaikuntha. Young Vance Parminter ran away when his mother was killed,
and the Bradcrofts were never able to locate him, or so Cary wished
everyone to think. So he allowed Vance to became the homeless street
urchin who began hanging out in Flicker Street in 1966. Cary kept tabs on
Vance until Vance developed a 3rd eye, which grew in
1972 and blocked all psi “transmissions” Cary'd been tapping
into astrally via Vance's mind.

IX. The Third Eye... Opened

Vance Parminter first
emerged in the Flicker St scene in 1966 at age 17. His 3rd
eye hadn't opened yet. In 1968, he met Althea Westin (whom