"Hold on," Puck broke in. "Your memories are a part of you. Losing one of your memories is like losing a piece of your soul."

Jason shook his head,his smile wavering faintly as he looked to Puck. "This memory is something I've not wanted to hold onto tho...because that's when I met Shade,of whom we're fighting. But it in it's self is happy,I don't fear losing it."

"Did you not just hear me? You can't get that part of your soul back!" Puck sighed

"I get a memory of yours, only one, and then I tell you what you want to know," the oracle rasped.

"I have two different halves,what difference would it make?" he replied to Puck,tho he stroked the head of the little dragon his his hands gently with two fingers.

She rose up over the table, framing his face with both her claws. Her nails gently scratched Jason's cheeks. "This might feel a bit...unpleasant," the oracle hissed and sank her claws into Jason's mind, ripping it open like a paper sack. She shuffled through his head, sorting through memories like photographs, examining them before tossing them aside. Finally, the oracle paused, reaching toward a bright spot of happiness. "Yessssssss," the oracle hissed, sinking her claws into the memory. "I will take this one. Now it is mine." There was a ripping sensation. The oracle watched him over the tablecloth, a pleased smile on her face. Puck was murmuring something that was inaudible and Ash regarded him with a look of pity.

Jason was shocked,letting the little ice dragon fall to his lap with a faint gasp. As she finished he shook his head,blinking rapidly. He rubbed his eyes,groaning faintly.He rubbed his head,putting it to the table as he tried to recover from the ripping feeling and the shock from his mind being riffled through.

"It is done," the oracle murmured. She lay her hands, palms up, on the table between Jason and herself. "And now I will uphold my end of the bargain. Place your hands in mine, child, and ask."

He opened his eyes,now hazel again and lifted his head and seemed a looked to her hands. His own shaking and now having lost control over himself a bit,with scales forming on them,put his in hers. He glanced to the others,a little unsure.

Her long nails curled around. The hag closed her pitted eyes. "Three questions," she rasped, her voice seeming to come from a great distance away. "That is the standard bargain. Three questions I will answer, and I am done. Choose wisely."

Breath shaking and body tingling a bit,bones threatening to shift out of his nervousness,he nodded,tho biting his lower lip sharply with a fang. "What are the specific...whereabouts of a dragon human hybrid named Flasher Skytracer?My elder brother."