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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.

wild fruit,” Violet reassured her. “I’m sure His Highness and Dylan have been

mountains, they would run out of provisions. But there weren’t many wild fruits around, so survival now meant hunting rabbits and mountain

roasted wild rabbit. Their clothes were covered in dirt and grease, and their hair was disheveled. They had just washed their beards in a nearby mountain spring, making them look a

of meat would cause bits of food to get caught in the hair. At night, when they took turns sleeping, ants would crawl onto their faces, nibbling at the scraps. Generally, the ants weren’t too bad, but when they came across a nest of poisonous ones, their faces would

their faces and bodies were dotted with those red, swollen bumps. Luckily, they had brought along some of Sebastian’s antidote pills. Otherwise, those

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Chapter 1260

to hold back a curse. “Once we catch the next supply delivery, we’ll set this mountain on

You’ll break the skin, and you don’t want scars. You haven’t even found a

Highness, aren’t you itchy?” Dylan glanced at Rafael, who was still eating gracefully. His face was

swollen. ” But scratching just makes it worse. Between pain and itch, I choose itch. This is also

finished speaking, he rubbed his whole

days. Before that, they had been wandering around the mountains without much progress. Going down the mountain

by a tangle of dry grass, was

to the village. So, they snuck

next 10 to 15 days, at which point the hidden entrance to a tunnel would be opened. It was then they realized that the grain wasn’t

was actually a tunnel in the

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