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I cursed myself fortheover in my mind, I recalled another little sentence she’d dropped into the conversation…

"My patience wears thinner than a ghoul’s skin"

The analogy was certainly an unco as to come? What was ames?

But would she really be so malicious as to send me to this hellish place just for her own amusement? Would she really be so evil?

I could describe the oracle in many ways, but she’d never struck me as evil

Whatever the case, it didn’t matter

I was here

But I can’t just sit here

I gazed once again toward the rippling surface of the pool Noto try to escape

"Not try" For so oing to escape

Ben

I surfaced near the edge of the pool, at the side that was closest to the path that ran through the cavern Slowly, I raised lanced around the chahoul anyone