Bound to The Enemy of My Mate
“You don’t have time, but I need time to prepare the medicine for your wife.”
“You knew?”
“I have a gut. And the threads of fate are loud tonight.” She nodded to a small, dried, silvery-blue flower on her shelf. It pulsed with a faint inner light. “I have only a little of the Moonshadow Drake’s Bane here. It is what you seek. It grows where the bones of the oldest mountains weep, in caves that never see the sun, watered only by glacial melt. The deepest crevasse on the north face of the Howling Peak. A dangerous place. The plant is guarded by the loneliness of the ages, and by things that dwell in the deep dark.”