CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Persephone appeared in an empty, small hotel room and she put Lisa on the bed. She walked to a chair and sat down in it, and the television turned on as she did. There were talking heads on the screen discussing giant monsters, horror, death and the end of the world. Paris was being covered in web by a giant black spider, the middle east was under siege by what appeared to be living electricity. With a thought, the channel changed to more of the same thing. “These humans are way too obsessed with this stuff,” she said to herself and turned to look at Lisa. “Lucky for you, you’re sleeping,” she said and turned back towards the television as the channel changed again. Then it came to something more interesting. “Here in India a red humanoid giant stood off against three

