Mao Mao Apothecary Diaries 소설 & 이야기

My steps are slow and reverent as I enter, drinking in every detail. A broad wooden table dominates the center, its surface clear except for a leather mat and a marble mortar set to the side. All around it, elegant black shelves stretch from floor to ceiling, each one filled to bursting with neat rows of labeled jars, vials, and apothecary bottles. Dried herbs hang in fragrant bundles from exposed beams. Shimmering apparatuses... still, flasks, retorts, alembics... are arranged meticulously beside tiny glass droppers and rows of tincture bottles.

“There’s not much to talk about. I’m an exile with a death warrant and a mate who’d rather kill me than have me expose the pack secrets.” Cassie’s eyebrows lift. “Is that what you think?” The question sits there, sticky and sharp. I look away, up at the line of drying herbs that bisects the room. There’s more variety here than in most apothecaries: sage, mugwort, skullcap, dried poppies hanging like little brown bells. Bundles of pale birch bark, glass jars packed with yellow roots and bitter leaves, whole shelves dedicated to vials of what I’d guess are poisons if I didn’t know Cassie’s reputation.

More guards were gathered everywhere, all armed their eyes and guns on us, We finally entered the main door and even in this situation, I couldn't help being taken aback by the beautiful house. It was hard to impress me but this right here was some grade A high class I had never seen before. The walls of the house were white with matching tiles, I could see my own reflection everywhere I looked. Two large mirrors were on the wall with a single painting of what looked like a bird, “What do you want?” The man I now assumed was the boss of all the guards asked,

Having the content transferred into the syringe he placed the bottle aside and stroked Zander's skin above his heart. "I was reading it as a story book until I came to the last entry of his diary that he made seven days before his death. It was about Monkshood elixir— A potion of revival that can bring deads to life at consumption. It's described as a powerful elixir that would work on anyone. Even on animals. Only... It's effective when used within twenty-four hours of the being's demise.