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Chapter 12

Slipping in and out of the barracks without anyone seeingEveryone was still in the kitchens, the sound of their voices floating up and doith the conversation I had tobefore they flowed fro, up to their individual roorabbedshoes, and stuffed theers The tricky part hat ca the hallway, I paused in front of Granite’s roo hard, I slipped into his roo on his desk The fla shadows to dance all around rabbed the first stack of green h it One hundred was printed on each of the pieces of thin paper and I counted out forty I could only hope that would be enough for Fern, but not enough to tip Granite off that so

Next to the money lay the papers I’d asked him about

"In for a penny, in for a pound¸" I whispered toBasileus

Eastern front

Dying trees

The disease see quickly, and froed to thrive The hu their best to help ste burrowers, or Cryptococcus as they call it, but there is no slowing of the spread There seeots, wind is constantly blowing Will be sending a delegate to the closest Eyrie and our Sylph cousins to ask for help

Truthfully,

Ranger Fir

I tucked the paper back into the drawer,by the wind No wonder Granite had been upset The last tih, we’d easily lost over half our fale fact Butburrowers, which I kneas false now What if there had been no disease at all? What if so else had killed our people, but it had been hidden beneath the pretext of the lung burrowers? My heart clenched and I knew that it was a distinct possibility

The questions had no answers, and the longer I stood in Granite’s roo the door open, I peered down the hallway and breathed a sigh of relief No one waited for ht the inclination to run, and even so my steps were hurried

"Hey, where you been?"

I spun to see Mal coreen I stiffened until he twisted his hand and presented ht like this"

I blinked several tiht, the whites of his eyes had a funny pink tinge Maybe he was sick "What’s gotten into you?"