Chapter Thirty-One
When Chloe returned to Obsidian, she found the others at a nearby table waiting for her.
“Where’s Finley?” she asked, noticing now how empty the hall was compared to when they were last here.
Gideon replied. “It said something about it being the middle of the night and headed down to its quarters. We said you wouldn’t be too long, but it refused to wait. Apparently, sherikans have strange sleeping schedules.”
“Not that we have any idea how they can even tell it’s time to sleep,” Tag added, looking around at the ceiling and walls. “No clocks, no sunlight, no nothing.”
“What happened down there, Chloe?” Ben asked, his voice rich with concern. “You were down there a long time. Did you find anything before you died?”
Chloe told them about everything she had seen in the
