Yeah, the shadows and stuff... Aren't they—I mean, I feel like they want something. It's like they're going for my Shard...

People got possessed, too, didn't they? In the previous Oracle. Maybe that's the same thing that spoke to you, and we're under attack by freaky shadow body-snatcher things.

[ she's so fed up with all of this that she's not bothering to filter her words into Italian Renaissance-appropriate dialogue. ]