Up jumped the Devil?

[ShootingArts]

alarm bells

These bells are at a level you can't ignore. I have dealt with angry crowds numbering from a few dozen to hundreds without the alarm bells going into full scream. One time though I was just approaching several people sitting on the front porch of a rural home when things went into full scream. Never knew why.

Made a mistake looking for a piece of land and ran out of road just past a couple of homes, no room to turn around. The homeowners split up to bracket both sides of my vehicle. I recognized that as potential trouble and considering where I was at figured I was too close to a pot patch or meth lab but that alarm wasn't even in the same class as the "evil is present" alarm. I guess folks really do have to feel it to understand it.

I have known a few people who had no moral compass over the years. Some seemed very normal, some so far from human that you really had no common ground to communicate with them.

Hu

I was a public defender for many years and I remember when I moved to the felony division it was really noticeable how the clientele changed. In misdemeanor court, the defendants were mostly normal folks who screwed up. In felony court, the clients were a totally different breed and some of them, you are right, had an evil presence about them that was a bit scary. I cant say I have ever felt any supernatural level of evil, although I am a firm believer in intuition and following your senses when you hear alarm bells going off in your head that something is not right. In many of the violent crimes I worked as a defense attorney, the victim in the case often described having very unsettling feelings just before the crime took place.