Chapter 111MaxThe smell intensified suddenly, going from unpleasant to overwhelming in the span of a heartbeat. It was like someone had released a concentrated cloud of it, saturating the air around us. I could taste it on my tongue now, bitter and metallic, coating the back of my throat.My vision started to blur at the edges, colors bleeding together. The world took on a strange, dreamlike quality where everything moved too slowly and too fast at the same time.I saw Ace ahead of me, maybe thirty feet away now. He'd stopped running, stopped chasing. He was on his knees, one hand pressed against the ground to keep himself upright, the other clutching at his chest. His whole body was shaking, fighting the effects of the wolfsbane.He was trying to turn around, trying to look back at me. I saw his mouth moving, forming my name, but I couldn't hear him. Everything sounded muffled, distant, like I was underwater.*Ace,* I tried to call out, but my voice came out slurred, weak, barely
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