“How are we going in?” Allyson asked of the Captain.

He looked over at Eliza. “I don’t suppose she was able to pass on where she was?”

Eliza coughed again. “No. In the dream, she was in a tower. Not exactly (cough) applicable here.”

Allyson wished Eliza would stay behind, but the vampire maiden would go through the fires of hell to rescue Veronica, and she wasn’t going to be dissuaded. “Wait. Didn’t you say that she was burned . . . at the end of the dream?” Allyson hated reminding her friend of that.

“Yeah.”

“Maybe the tower wasn’t a message. Maybe the fire was.”

“Are you thinking the...