Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.
When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.
The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Death is when the monsters get you.
And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.