Years later, on Abra's fifteen birthday, Dan cautions Abra not to repeat the same mistake as him by starting to drink or submitting to rage. Dan and Abra fight Rose the Hat in a long psychic struggle, and with help from Billy and the ghost of Dan's father, they manage to push Rose the Hat down from the Overlook to her death. Already weak from disease, the group of True Knot inadvertently inhale the steam and die. Dan releases the steam collected from Abra's dying great-grandmother to the group of True Knot lying in wait. Dan and Billy show up in her place, while Abra helps them using her astral projection. As Abra's great-grandmother dies, Dan retrieves her diseased steam.Ībra baits Rose the Hat into confronting her at the location where the Overlook Hotel once stood. He visits Abra's great-grandmother, who is dying of cancer, and telepathically learns from the dying woman that he and Abra's mother, Lucy, share the same father. With the help of Billy, one of Dan's friends, they kill off the first team of kidnappers, but Dan soon realizes that Rose the Hat will not stop pursuing her vendetta against Abra. Angry and skeptical at first, David starts to believe him and go along with the plan to save his daughter. Abra asks for Dan's help, and he reveals his connection with Abra to David, her father, and John Dalton, their family doctor.

In desperation, they send people to kidnap Abra, believing that her steam can cure them. 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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