Infernal Ties
“Serena had whispered and chanted some words while dabbling with herbs and a pitch-black liquid. The finger had transformed into a small, pale-grey oblong crystal in the bowl, which seemed to make Serena very happy. I leaned on the door frame and waited for it to be over and done with. I had places to be. I wasn’t quite sure where, but I knew they didn’t involve magic or necromancers. Serena took a long moment attaching the new stone to a pretty silver chain and slipping it around her neck. I p...ushed off the doorway and expected her to give me something I could use to find Quin. Instead, she slowly pulled the stiletto knife that had sat at her lower back and gave me a dark smirk. Fuck. I pulled my own blades and took a step back; taking on a powerful witch in her own home wasn’t how I’d planned on dying. “You were supposed to be dead by now. The salve was laced with a rather painful poison. Yet here you stand, taunting me. I don’t know how you survived.” Her tone shifted from bitter to almost manic.MoreLess
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