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"Oh, no" These were so to hate her for--

"You got married? I’m so happy for you! I can’t wait toto A? Is she still there?" A quick pause… "I can’t believe you didn’t even tell us, Carwyn!"

He leaned toward the phone "Turnabout is fair play, Mrs Vecchio Besides, we just gotWe need your brains, please"

Someone cleared their throat on the other line "So… what? You were just going to skip over this little bit of news until the next time we--"

"Beatrice…" The low murid, what can we help you with?"

Brigid took a deep breath, pleased to be talking about ain "What can you tell us about poranates?"

"Yes, we think the elixir ht be able to detect it in hu pause; then Beatrice’s so it, aren’t they?"

Carwyn said, "Yes"

Brigid heard two sighs

"After everything we did…"

Giovanni said quietly, "We tried to tell the truth about it Why didn’t they listen?"

"Greed," Brigid said "A willingness to exploit the weakness of others They’ll justify it to the And when I was huh I knew they could kill oing to stop it," Carwyn said "Our best bet is to learn how to detect it and hopefully find a cure"

"And you think po to do with it?"

"With detection, at least We know of two elixired huranates"

There was a pause, then the sound of movement on the other line Giovanni spoke "I believe that one of the ingredients in the elixir was poranate Beatrice and Dez have theto find soht be able to research it further Unfortunately, there aren’t id," Beatrice said "There’s a lot of ranates, so I’ll just give you the highlights They’re Persian Very ancient Some think the fruit Adaranate"

"Not an apple?" Carwyn chuckled and bit into one of the fruits she’d tossed at hiy, they’re associated with death Persephone was tricked into eating poranate by Hades and doomed to live in the Underworld There are lots of stories, but there are health benefits, too"

"Oh?"