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"I found a e similar to this outside my own front door," River said "I-I think I have soot here As crazy as it sounds… I think that the griffin who saved ht s about that statement that blewBut I didn’t even get a chance to as Rose said, "We need to talk to Corrine, and then River suggests that we visit the oracle"
Ben
The journey was long and arduous Perhaps it was just becausefor the island I was flying away from, but the journey across the Pacific Ocean see as it ever had before I lost count of the hours, but eventually, I spied land Moving ashore, I was relieved to discover that I had, by some miracle, reached Canada I found s in a tourist center, which had a detailed , I had located the foothills of Mount Logan Fro, I was able to find the route I’d taken with the ogres andinto a snowy azed down into the starry portal, its swirling, s to h when a voice spoke behind me A voice with a French accent
"Are you here for the full ht at first that thereup here that I hadn’t noticed I whirled around and founddirectly atover the snow only a few feet away, he was of average height and er build, with a sharp nose and bony cheeks He had lanky, shoulder-length hair and a goatee His appearance was youthful--I guessed that he could not have been much more than thirty years old when he died, and, bizarrely, he wore shorts and a tropical, pineapple-patterned shirt Evidently, his death had not occurred on this cliff--or anywhere nearby He looked like he had just stepped off a Hawaiian beach
His clothing onlyWhat was this person doing haunting this icy landscape if he’d died thousands of
"My name is Nolan," he replied "And this is aze as he looked over his shoulder The ethereal outline of a sht woman with a blonde bob drifted toward us across the snow Like the , and also like the man, she hat appeared to be beach clothes: a strapless, light cotton dress that fell just above her knees Now I also realized that both of their feet were bare I scanned their bodies, looking for marks or clues as to how they had died, but found none I wondered if they ht have drowned in the ocean
"Joseph," I replied instinctively, even as I mocked myself It didn’t matter if the whole world knewworse that could happen to ly eyebrow
I narrowedfor what?"
He paused, flicking his tongue across his lower lip, before exchanging a furtive glance with his wife He cleared his throat, his tone subdued as he spoke again: "Never mind then If you don’t already know… I’m sorry to have disturbed you"
He had piqued my interest far too much for me to allow him to brush me off now
I remained rooted to my spot, even as his hand passed over his wife’s back and the two of the away from me
"Wait," I called "You must tellslowly to face ain There was a span of silence as he considered ain at his wife She spoke to hie I had not learned He nodded slowly before addressing me "First, why don’t you tell h the portal and travel to the supernatural realm before you spoke to me," I replied truthfully
"What would you do there?" Chantel addressed me for the first time Her accent was richer than her husband’s
"Try to find out… what I a to my body
Chantel s "I remember it like it was yesterday," she said quietly
Nolan’s eyes lowered to the portal in the ground behindme to do the same
I approached next to him, my eyes cast doard into the dark abyss
"I do not kno an "But for supernaturals who die while still in this hu instinct to drift back to the supernatural dimension, since uessing that you ate at least once in order for you to know its location"
I nodded "I have I have also explored the supernatural realm a bit I’m headed back there now because I need to speak to so "You speak of supernaturals like they are familiar to you Were you not humans in your past life?" They certainly didn’t have the appearance of anything but humans
Nolan shook his head "My wife and I are not--and were not--huh we have never considered ourselves a them We saw hypocrisy in their ways, and ultio, we decided to leave the Sanctuary and settle like humans in this realm, anonymously"