"What do you think now?" Now that she had so much more information. About the Axis Mundi, about the Mysterium, about the music theme that kept cropping up in relation to all of this. Music and math, it was all intertwined, and she was as much a part of it as the rest of them. A piece that helped tie the rest together. Nic really was an asshole, Simon might comment but his head hurt too much right now to care about griping about Nic.

"You were always a part of this. You stumbled into the middle," Simon had specified the middle. "It's not always... straightforward. Think about Robert Torres, and Sebastian. Think about Sarah Benning. Jessica Wheldon." They manifested in such varied ways, Robert had a shadow that stalked him but moved on to his son. Sarah Benning became a "ghost" haunting her own town for fifty years, Jessica was allegedly possessed and exorcised. They were all linked, yet so very different. And yes, others echoed Simon's experience. Cracking, going nuts, and ending up in a mental ward. Sometimes the effects seemed to fade, or were removed via strange means.

Others went... darker.