Chapter 43 Kids fight

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The next day in the lab, I was hard at work when I realized Becky was staring at

“What’s wrong?” I asked, and I smoothed my hair down. “Is my hair sticking straight up or something? Do I have something in my teeth?”

“No, no,” Becky assured me, but her expression said otherwise. “Did you have some trouble sleeping last night?”

“How did you know?” I wondered.

“Your eyes are swollen,” my assistant pointed out gently. Heat spread to my cheeks, and I took my protective goggles off. I was hoping it wasn’t that noticeable, but apparently, that wasn’t the case.

After I’d gotten Finnick to sleep, I’d gone to my own bed and cried into the early hours of the morning. Hearing about Marco and the way Asher had used him to mourn my loss had been such a heavy burden to learn about, and I wasn’t processing it well.

But I couldn’t think of that now. There was too much work to be done.

“Anyway,” I said slowly, and then I shifted the subject. “Becky, have you found anything more about Udosyn?”

I likely knew the answer, but I couldn’t help but ask anyway. Becky and I had checked all of the medical books that the royal healers had access to, but there was

no mention of Udosyn.

But surprisingly, Becky didn’t say no straight away.

“Becky?” I prompted her again. “What is it?”

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pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose. “It

matter,” I assured her. “Any bit of information

that I’ve heard the name Udosyn before,” she revealed. “From a

and then I leaned back against the counter

was so little when I heard it that I had to make sure I wasn’t- imagining it. So, I went and spoke with my mother this morning. She told me that she couldn’t remember it clearly either, but

lost,” I

to the story, as my mom remembers it, Udosyn was created by an academy of sorcery known as Ewonmiams. They were infamous for creating different kinds of poisons and drugs.

I remarked, and my eyebrows knitted together. “How did

a lock of dark red hair behind her ear. “I guess she read it in one

as I thought about it. I didn’t know much of anything about sorcery. Not many people in Wegalla did either for that matter. All I could recall was mentions of it from historical books. See, sorcery had been wiped

there a way I could try to find the book your mother talked about?” I wondered,

family,” she replied with an apologetic glance. “You’d need permission

visit.”

nodded again. Of course. Things couldn’t be easy, especially here in Anemond. This place

earnestly. “Seriously, Becky. I know it’s just a little information,

For a moment, she reminded me of Marley. My

the doors of the laboratory flew open, and in burst Erika. The maid’s normally kind eyes were frantic, and her

breath, and she took a moment to

Erika,” I assured her, and I rushed over to her side. “What’s going on? You

“I’m in a hurry and you need to be as

tone to be

maid revealed, and panic flooded

No.

No, no, no.

this

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