Maelis

“Didn’t we also have a deadly peanut allergy?”

“Exactly, that’s what’s confusing,” I muttered, answering Rosa’s question even though I felt just as lost as she was.

Not only had I been challenged to an archery match on my first day here, now someone had tried to poison me only it wasn’t poison. It was something far worse. Something I was deadly allergic to.

“Did…” Rosa started, then suddenly stopped.

“What is it?” I asked, frowning. “Why’d you stop talking?”

There was a pause, then her voice became softer, more serious. “Nobody knows about your allergy, right?”

“Not even when I was Selene,” I said quietly.

She went silent...