Chapter 17

There wasn’t much time for thinking though as they were deposited into a dimly lit room filled with entirely too much fog. The air tasted metallic, giving Dana flashbacks to her heavy metal poisoning in the Pit.

“Come closer, both of you.” The voice sounded weird, as if two people were speaking but one was slightly off pitch. Lily shrugged at Dana and walked toward the voice. There wasn’t far to walk, as the two of them now stood on the edge of a curved glass wall. Down below, a speaker grill was leaking mystery fog all over the room.

“Hello?” Lily knocked on the glass. “We’re here to talk to a man about all my girlish dreams and I forgot to put money in the meter.”

“Patience, demon.” A dark shadow moved behind the glass, but Dana didn’t get a good look at it. “You two are my first real visitors in quite some time, and I would prefer to savor your company.”

“Are you the Oracle?” Dana asked.

“That is what some call me. It’s preferable to other names, but