I knew that I was just jumping to conclusions, that I was simply making this harder for myself, but there was something about the churning in my stomach that just didn’t feel right, regardless of what I was telling myself.
I had returned to the underworld with the purpose of ensuring that everything that was running smoothly – as smoothly as it could be running, considering all things, and it was safe to say that I was in no position to leave again. Whatever it was that was creating the sickening feeling in my stomach, would have to wait, as there were rather pressing matters that I needed to deal with, before we ran out of time to do so.
“Do you believe that it is working?”
Up until now, this was all that Anastasia and I had been talking about – the matters at hand, that we could not
