The Altar Of Pergamon
Cut along the dashed lines and pass the cards around the table.
Where were you sitting when you read most of this one, and did the chase pacing make you read faster than usual or slow down to savor the travel?
If you had to flee your house tonight with one bag and no plan, what is the first comforting item you would grab, and what does that say about you?
The story leans on the idea that very old objects still carry weight for living people. Is there an old thing in your family (a ring, a recipe card, a photo) that still hums with meaning for you?
Ariel and Lara have to keep moving while relying on each other. Tell us about a time you felt genuinely carried by another person's steadiness, even briefly.
Which of the story's settings felt like somewhere you would actually want to sit down with a hot drink, and which one gave you that pleasant shiver of wanting to be nowhere near it?
Cahn writes as though hidden meaning is everywhere if you learn to read it. Did the book leave you looking at ordinary things (a street name, a coincidence, a date) a little differently that week?
Without giving anything away, what feeling stayed with you after you closed the book: unsettled, comforted, curious, or something harder to name? Sit with it a second before you answer.
Some readers come to Cahn for the thriller and some for the spiritual framing. Whichever pulled you in, was there a moment where the other side of it surprised you or softened you a little?