"That too," she wrinkles her nose, thinking about not very fun experiences with teenage kids who can't hold their liquor, "Maybe if you get old and ugly people will stop buying you drinks."

"I'm fairly sure it wasn't about a book, just student drama. And yeah, urban legends, stories about people going missing, students bragging about having gone into the fog."

She takes it all with a grain of salt, but even the lies reveal bits and pieces of information about Baedal and it's inhabitants.