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pretty sure it was somewhere in Europe.”
    “What did it look like?” Colin asked. “The demon, not the city.”
    Amanda actually shuddered as she recalled the dream that hadn’t seemed like a dream at all. “It almost looked like a man, but everything about it was wrong. The color, its face, its eyes. And it smelled . I didn’t know we could smell things in our dreams. This was just a dream, right?”
    Amanda’s voice was pleading with them for reassurance, but Colin and Anna weren’t sure. The Angel had advised them to find a medium, some human with an unnatural connection to the supernatural, and they had found one. And that same night, she had experienced a dream or maybe even someone’s memory.
    “Describe the demon. Everything. We can probably tell you something about it. We’ve killed thousands of demons ourselves.” Anna was trying to console her, but she was a bit freaked out by Amanda’s experience as well.
    “It was green with a long face and orange eyes. And it had these red markings on its back.” Amanda’s fingers trembled inside Anna’s hand, but Anna was only vaguely aware she was still holding it.
    “Holy shit,” Colin muttered.
    “What?” Amanda asked, that panic returning to her voice.
    Anna took a deep breath. Colin wanted her to answer Amanda’s question, knowing she was so much better at being sensitive and considerate, and he’d probably just scare her even more.
    Anna wasn’t quite sure how to answer her without traumatizing her either, though. “Well, we killed that demon with Luca in Berlin in 1923.”
    “Ok,” Amanda said. She knew there was more.
    “And… Jas visits me in my dreams sometimes, and she delivered a message to me from Luca’s angel. He wanted us to remember this particular demon for a reason, and we think it might have something to do with Jeremy’s possession. Or figuring out how we can save him anyway.”
    Amanda coughed out a laugh. At least that’s what Anna thought it was.
    “What happened in your dream?” Colin asked. “You saw the demon. You were close enough to smell it. Then what?”
    “It attacked me,” Amanda sighed. She squeezed her eyes closed like the demon was in the room with them now.
    “Did it kill you?” Anna asked.
    Amanda shook her head again. “It… took over my body. I guess like it possessed me. But I looked down at my body, and I still looked like me. I didn’t look like that green demon at all. And for the most part, I felt like me, but I knew something wasn’t quite right. I just didn’t know what.”
    Anna finally dropped Amanda’s hand and twisted her body on the sofa so that she was facing Colin.
    “Oh my God, Colin. Maybe that’s what happened to Jeremy? He was marked. The night we checked on him, he told us he was really tired, but after the day he’d been through, we just figured who wouldn’t be? But what if he knew something didn’t feel quite right, he just didn’t know he was already possessed?”
    Colin moved away from the dinette table and sat near Amanda. “Did you ever change in your dream? Did you transform?”
    “No, I woke up after that part. I’ve been waiting for several hours for it to get late enough to call Anna. You don’t think it means I’m actually possessed, then, right?”
    Anna noticed Amanda’s fingers were still trembling. No wonder the poor woman was terrified; the dream had felt so real to her, she didn’t know if it was real, if she was about to become a demon like the friend these hunters had told her about.
    “I really don’t think so, Amanda. I think this was a dream sent to you for a reason, to help us try to figure out how to save our friend. And I’m afraid it may not be the last of these dreams for you.”
    Amanda closed her eyes again and fell back against the sofa. “Great. And how long can I expect these to keep coming?”
    “Until we’ve figured out how to save him or we’re dead,” Colin answered.
    Anna shot him a