#Chapter85

Extra C Two-Creeping Vines

Rose Elken

“Would you hold still?”

I gritted my teeth as I held onto the arm of the struggling monarch as he tried his best to evade the salve that I wanted to apply to his shoulder.

“You are acting exactly like Jem when I tried to heal him. Why won’t both of you let me do my job in peace? An ten minute job lengthens into a hour’s long work because of your childishness. I could have gone back to my books…”

I sighed as I thought dreamily of the stacks of books awaiting me on my desks, Orion having delivered them when he...