Chapter 22- Meeting the council

She then felt a thick array of fog surrounding her, the fog went round and round her until she felt it begin to lift her up. It lifted her from the ground and took her to the skies, as fast as the speed of lightning. She tried to break free from its grasp, but as light as the fog was, if felt as if a large hand was holding her tightly. The fog finally dropped her in an opening. Surrounding her was not the five large stones anymore, but each member of the council of five, seated on their thrones. 

“Are you the one who summoned us?” One of them, the first member said to her. 

“Yes,” Joana said nervously. 

“And why did you do so?” 

“I came here before, in a first life,” she said. “And I have come again to ask of the same thing I asked for the last time I came here. I want my mortal life back.” 

“Oh, I remember you now,” the third member said. “You are Marylin Lou, the one who loved that human boy.”

“Yes,” Joana said. 

“We had an agreem