After spending a while talking things over, Zoey finally decided to tell me much more about her father than she had ever shared before.
"I honestly don't know when it all started," she said quietly. "But my father wasn't always this obsessed with the idea of another world. I think everything began when... I was probably around ten years old. My memories from back then are pretty fuzzy, so I can't remember all the details, but I do remember him saying that he had discovered the secret of our world. He kept saying that if nobody prepared for what was coming, then our entire world would eventually be swallowed."
For some reason, those words immediately felt strangely familiar to me.
More specifically, they reminded me of someone I had already encountered before in this world.
His reasoning sounded almost identical to Satania's explanation for why she had begun building her undead army in the first place.
