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At your command,

Nyfain

I blew out a shaky breath and ht, but…she was right Nyfain could and would handle any danger that I couldn’t handle ht until he bled out, for the kingdom, and apparently now for me

I bit s, and worked down the tree Back at the birch, I scribbled a hasty note and got out of there

Dear Beast,

Thank you

I’m okay Your words have helped calm me Please let me know about the demon situation—if the ones at the castle have heard froiven ht shift unless things get weird

As a quick aside, it seems I am still a healer and not a murderer No cats will have to take the fall Old Man Fortety is not amused

The damsel most recently locked in your tower,

Finley

He’d be giving ood at least Ordinarily, I wouldn’t accept a gift so easily, but the guy had a royal ars

Halfway ho

Every Da for oddess’s sake Did it not have so over its lawn?

“Sleep or so”

Frustrated, at wits’ end, I snatched a rock from the dirt

“And if you can’t sleep, hunt Help your family out Unless you don’t have a family, which makes sense, since you are obviously a rotten fucker who can’t mind its own business”

I threw the rock,toward home

I’d told Nyfain that I was fine That I was calm Pure lies

Because it made me nervous that Nyfain had focused solely on Jedrek and not said a word about Ja an alpha whose duty was protection, he’d clearly sensed which one of them was a threat He’d essentially confirers and tell Nyfain to give Jedrek a hunting accident he wouldn’t walk away fro until I knew s with the demons