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Violet saw how much weight Carissa had lost–she couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep.

Heart aching, she pulled Carissa into an embrace, pressing Carissa’s head onto her shoulder. ” Lean on me. If crying makes you feel better, then let it out.”

But Carissa suddenly shoved her away, scrambling to her feet and jumping over the stream. She ran a few steps forward, stopping at a tree.

Carved into the trunk of the tree was a clear and detailed orchid.

Carissa ran her fingers over the smooth lines of the flower, but her heart didn’t lift. While the blossom was complete, the condition of the tree and the carving itself suggested that this was the mark Travis and Kyle had found.

It was a discovery, but it was also like finding nothing at all.

After a moment of quiet contemplation, she spoke. “Vivi, why don’t you all head back down the mountain first? I’ll stay here and keep looking. Since there’s a mark here, there must be more further ahead.”

Violet gave her a light tap on the head. “What are you thinking? We’re in this together. If we leave, we leave together. If we stay, we stay together.”

“But our provisions are running out,” Carissa said.

we’ll catch fish and forage for wild fruit,” Violet reassured her. “I’m sure His Highness and Dylan have been getting

mountains, they would run out of provisions. But there weren’t many wild fruits

with scruffy beards sat in a small cave, gnawing on freshly roasted wild rabbit. Their clothes were covered in dirt and grease, and their hair was

sleeping, ants would crawl onto their faces, nibbling at the

had brought along some of Sebastian’s antidote pills. Otherwise, those two men

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Chapter 1260

while chewing, unable to hold back a curse. “Once we catch the next

“Stop scratching. You’ll break the skin, and you don’t want scars.

glanced at Rafael, who was still eating gracefully. His face was clearly dotted with

said, taking a deep breath, his face growing even more red and swollen. ” But scratching just makes it worse. Between pain and itch, I

finished speaking, he rubbed his whole face on his

the mountains without much progress. Going down

cave. Below it, hidden by a tangle of dry grass, was

as someone had been bringing food down the mountain to the village. So, they snuck in at night to investigate and

to 15 days, at which point the hidden entrance to a tunnel would be opened. It was then they realized that

a tunnel

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