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"I don’t know," I admit "Maybe she--"

"No," Greer interrupts "She is still in the city Still in San Francisco"

"How can you know that?" Grace asks

Greer shakes her head "I just know"

"That’s likely true," Nick says "An oracle wouldn’t stray far from her home, from the vortex of her power"

"Okay then," I say, "if she’s still in the city, we need to find her"

"It’s a big city," Grace says

"And if the oracle doesn’t want to be found," Nick adds, "she won’t be"

"If she didn’t want to be found," I reply, confident that the oracle wouldn’t just abandon me--us, "she wouldn’t have left the pendant and the note"

"Where do we start?" Grace asks

There are two logical places to begin Either she’s sticking close to hohborhood around her storefront Or she’s getting as far fro to avoid whoever--or whatever--is looking for her

"I think we need to split up," I suggest "Go out in pairs We’ll cover more of the city faster"

"Good idea," Nick says

"Grace, you can go with Greer," I say "She probably knows the city better than any of us"

Besides, I want to keep Nick close to ht be a tiny bit of h yet to send one oforacle and whateverher

"We’ll divide the city into sectors," I continue "It will probably take a few days to search everywhere, but hopefully we’ll find her before then"

"Where should we search first?" Grace grabs her backpack off the floor and slips her aro, always ready to leap into any situation, no er or uncertainty She fully ees coe Greer, on the other hand, is a little more reticent