Chapter 11: The space between many worlds

"You want me to do what?" I stare at Thalia like she's just suggested we go skydiving without parachutes. Which, honestly, might be safer than what she's actually proposing.

"Enter the spirit realm," she repeats, laying out strange-looking herbs and crystals in a circle around me. "Consciously this time, not just through visions."

After barely escaping the Archive with our lives (and I'm still not sure about Thalia who mysteriously survived and kept redirecting whenever she's asked 'how she survived'), we've holed up in what looks like an abandoned church. The stained glass windows are mostly broken, but the few intact pieces cast weird, shifting shadows across the floor.

"And you're sure this won't, oh, I don't know... Make my already bad situation worse?" I watch as she sprinkles something that smells like burning metal around my feet.