"Then you are . . . You are Charon. And I must have - yes, here it is. Your toll. Take me then to the Elysian Fields. Quickly, take me away from this dreadful place."
He extended Charon's toll.
The figure made no move to accept.
Rather, a deep and melancholy voice responded. "Your stop is not the Elysian shore."
Dionysius gazed at the dark figure, at the coin. Reluctantly he let the coin fall, watched it disappear into the depths of the murky water.
He was silent.
What more was there to say!
20. The Demon's Lair
There are dark grottoes in the high mountains. And tarns, deep and cold, bottomless pits of murky water. And in some few favored spots, dark grottoes and murky tarns together.
Such was the site at which Demo stood.