The Omega He Banished
"But recently... someone new began sending messengers. They were demanding a specific plant. A poisonous one. *Aconitum ferox*, but a concentrated strain that only grows in our high meadows."
I felt the blood drain from my face. "And you gave it to them?"
"No!" she cried out, her body jolting. "Our elders, the healers... they refused. They knew what it could be used for. It’s a slow-acting neurotoxin for our kind. It’s meant to paralyze the heart. When we refused, people started dying. Not from the poison, but from the shadows. Then they came for the rest of us."
I looked at Eliott, my heart hammering against my ribs. "Eliott, the celebration. The way the guards collapsed, the way the sympto
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