Her Majestic Battle Cry

Chapter 1260

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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.

catch fish and forage for wild fruit,” Violet reassured her. “I’m sure His Highness and

they would run out of provisions. But there weren’t many wild fruits around, so survival now meant hunting rabbits and mountain chickens. And along the way, they had

the western slope of the mountain, two men 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 disheveled. They had just washed their beards in a nearby mountain spring, making them look a little

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

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

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Chapter 1260

to hold back a curse. “Once we catch the next supply

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

Rafael, who was still eating gracefully. His face was clearly dotted with more red bumps

his face growing even more red and swollen. ” But scratching just makes it worse. Between pain and itch, I choose itch. This is also a good time to

rubbed his whole face on

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

discovered the small cave. Below it, hidden by a tangle of dry grass, was a larger cave. It was artificially dug, and it was deep and vast. Inside, they found provisions and

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

that revealed the supply delivery was expected again in the next 10 to 15 days, at which point the hidden entrance to a tunnel would be opened. It was

actually a tunnel