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But, thenthe wound closed Teren saw it close, watched with his ape as one side of the slashed flesh rejoined with the other, sealing shut The pain disappeared

Teren blinked at the sight Then he tried slashing his wrist again

Again, the wound bloo

It can’t be Teren tried a fewhis teeth at the pain and then in horror as the pain faded almost instantly He cut hi to spill more of his blood But he couldn’t Each time, the wound healed itself as surely as if it had never happened at all

Finally, Teren flung the sword away He collapsed at the feet of Sapientus, weeping He couldn’t even end his life He was cursed forever by the blood fever

He stayed in the te apprentices, ca to answer their questions He didn’t want to tell them the reason why he wouldn’t speak to the who dared to talk to a man He didn’t want to speak because he was terrified of the horrible, secret power the blood fever had left with hiht he stayed in the teods let hiraced, and then take away the ability for him to end his life? What did they want hi hiht in the teround in frustration To his shock, thea hundred jagged lines in the stone Teren stared, frozen He held his hand up to thethat his knuckles had healed over and left no ods had iven hith

Perhaps they have punished ht He knelt quietly before Sapientus for the rest of that night, thinking The next , he left the teh his father’s legacy shielded him from punish an abo faithful to the crown, trying always to find some way or other to prove that he wanted to devote what little worth he had to serving the throne, to serving the gods

So he scouted on his own, secretly helping the Inquisition root outhimself known He would follow those he suspected around the city, watching theh with their families Whenever he found a ht and mark it with the Inquisition’s symbol The Inquisitors didn’t know he did this, but they

Then, one afternoon, he stu, shter, a beautiful Tah Teren would stop by several ti orders froirl Her name was Daphne Sometimes, Teren would see her run deliveries in the city She would take sopaths that he’d always lose her in the busy streets When she returned to the apothecary in the afternoons, Teren would wonder where she had disappeared to

Until he heard a ruer Society, a supposed tea powers not of this world Apparently, Daphne used her father’s apothecary as a place where she would create pastes that would cover ers and others paint over their ht that Daphne was the one responsible for keeping the Daggers hidden

One night, Teren trailed Daphne as she left her father’s apothecary and irl doing out at an hour like this? She disappeared for a long time at the university, but Teren finally found her in a narrow alleyway She was exchanging words with a hooded figure and handed him a small satchel