Savar was silent and he looked out the window. He seemed to be chewing something. Eventually, he looked back at Shay his eyes almost closed.

“If you fail…….then the rest of us can only pray and hope that the Gods exist and will rise to fight the evil that shall be released.”

Shay stared at Savar silently. She felt anger rise in her. “Why me? Why must I fight this battle in a book that my father wrote? A book where nothing is real for heaven’s sake!”

“You are wrong there Shay. Everything you see is real. You are in the book and you are real. Your mother and father...