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Phillipe followed her through the halls and down to the basement level He stood beside her as she used a poker to open the door to Geoffrey’s furnace Only then did he speak "Could you synthesize more of the serum, Alexandra?"

"Maybe" She tossed the box into the flames "Let’s not find out, okay?"

Cyprien’s seneschal bowed to her, and then left her alone to watch everything burn until the evidence of her discovery was destroyed

Alex turned away fro her fingers in the eue

Luisa Lopez knehen the security guard outside her door dozed off He took a nap every night just afterstations were quiet At twelve thirty she eased out of the hospital bed, her legs shaking with the unfaht, and reached for her wheelchair

She didn’t worry about falling Her gift of foresight had shown her doing this a hundred tiht Luisa which corridors the nurses used most frequently, and when hospital security made their rounds It had taken her only a feeeks to work out the best tiardens Even so, Luisa could hardly believe it when she wheeled herself through the auto

The voice inside her, the one that spoke to her whenever her eyes turned white and the visions came, murmured in the back of her mind One day he’ll coloves He’ll watch you fronored the voice and s Harper had kept her pro around the flower beds and pathways through the gardens she had planted Liling would be coain

She never doubted that the shadow prince would come to her someday In the dreamlands they had become friends, true friends who could look into each other’s souls It was just hard to wait for hih to return to the mortal world Luisa couldn’t tell from her visions how old she would be when she finallysuspicion it wouldn’t be for a very long ti and handsome, and I’ll be a scarred, white-haired old lady

She found a spot under a trellis of rant shadows to watch them bloom After a few ht doze

He caht and into her dreams as he always did You’re here

Where else would I be? Luisa held out her scarred hand When he ht about the baby deer, wasn’t I?

You were His big hand ed the gap between theh his Unlike the others, his flesh was still warm

I remember when you came to read to me Even then, I could hear the pain in your voice She felt her eyes change as he knelt down before her wheelchair Glowing light covered the hazel of her irises, until her eyes appeared solid white Someday we’ll find each other, and then we can have a real visit

You’d want ered on his face You’re not afraid of what I can do?