Cole's eyes fluttered close and he fell to the table. "Cole?" Ida called as she anxiously stared at him. How a man could suddenly fall asleep while waiting was something of a great surprise. But...
That was when it dawned on her that they had been drugged. Not that they had eaten, they had perceived what they ought not to have.
Ida looked around, she saw no one. Not the men that were previously eating at their desk, not even the waiter that was smiling cheekily at every customer. They couldn't have disappeared just like that. They couldn't be just illusions to be led into the lion's den.
"Cole?" She called again, doubting and at the same time confused. She had no idea where the two young men that were previously drinking Brandy were. Even the sack she spotted the forbidden Oracle was nowhere to be found.
