"Passage?"
"Water Eye?"
Zheng Qing and Jiang Yu snapped back to their senses at the same time, looked at each other, then turned in unison to Nikita.
"What did you mean by that?" The young wizard tightened his grip on the talisman gun, his tone unfriendly. "Are you saying you can see the passage the Doctor just found too?"
"By the might of Captain Thomas, it is merely a little trick." The she-demon smiled at him.
"Why did you not mention it earlier?" Jiang Yu asked warily.
"Because you did not ask me earlier." Tilting her head, the she-demon put on a helpless expression. "As the saying goes, the more one says, the more likely one is to slip up. What if you decided I meant harm and slapped a few more Suppression Talismans on me? Would that not just be asking for trouble..."
Zheng Qing studied the she-demon carefully, trying to glean more from her expression.
But he quickly gave up.
The she-demon maintained that alluring expression throughout, making it difficult to judge what she was truly thinking.
"What did that guess of yours mean?" Giving up on speculation, he asked directly, "Can the size of the passage change too?"
"This is the Illusory Dream Realm. Nothing is impossible here." Nikita grew slightly more serious, the smile at her lips fading. "Just as you could suddenly teleport from Wusa City to the depths of the Bewitching Forest... the size of a dream passage may change according to its user's needs."
Zheng Qing silently considered the she-demon's words.
Jiang Yu sat up a little straighter, glanced at the she-demon, then looked at the young wizard.
"Do not believe her," she warned softly, poking Zheng Qing's arm. "Just as she said herself, I always feel she means no good... Even if