Soon, the True Knot start to die of an infectious disease. At the same time, the True Knot's leader, Rose the Hat, is also aware of Abra's existence as a potential major source of sustenance. Horrified, Abra telepathically reaches out for Dan, but they are unable to do anything for the boy. One night, Abra psychically witnesses a ritual torture and murder of a boy by the True Knot, a group of quasi-immortals who wanders across America and periodically feed on "steam", a psychic essence that children with "the shining" produce when they are tortured to death. As she grows, the contact becomes more conscious and voluntary. In the meantime, Abra, a toddler girl with psychic powers greater than Dan's, slowly and unintentionally establishes a telepathic bond with him. With the aid of a cat that can sense when a person is about to die, Dan becomes known as "Doctor Sleep". He settles in a New Hampshire town and works in a hospice, where his remnant psychic abilities provide comfort to the dying. Dan drifts for decades, but eventually finds an AA community and gives up drinking. The adult Dan reprises his father's legacy of anger and alcoholism. Chef Hallorann eventually teaches Danny how to imprison the ghosts in lock boxes inside his mind. Angry ghosts from the Overlook Hotel eventually find Danny, including the woman from Room 217. Following the events of The Shining, Danny remains psychologically traumatized, while Wendy, his mother, slowly recovers from her injuries.
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