Rae’s POV“With what is in her body, she shouldn’t still be breathing.”A woman’s voice. Calm but tight underneath.“How long has it been in her body?” Killian’s voice. Somewhere to my left.“Months,” the woman said. “I can’t say but this didn’t start recently.”I pushed my eyes open.A woman sat beside me. Maybe fifty, maybe older. Silver hair pulled back tight. She had her hand against my wrist and her eyes had that faint, inward look people get when they’re reading something the rest of us can’t see.She glanced up when she felt me looking.“She’s back,” she said quietly.Killian was standing against the far wall with his arms crossed. Something moved across his face when our eyes met. Gone fast, but it had been there.“What is it,” I said. My voice was barely anything. “What’s wrong with me.”The woman… Maya, I figured… didn’t look away from me when she answered.“You have been taking poison,” she said. “Something called Ghost Root, mixed with a couple other things. It suppresses
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