Ira's Pov

Aruin hands the tiny bottle with three drops of my blood to the seer while I hold my bleeding hand on top of another small bottle until several more drops fall in. I figured out that it's better to pay the Seer and the Sincarion at once rather than cut myself again later. 

Linda pours the medicine that the Seer provided on the wound and wraps a piece of clean cloth around my hand to cover the wound. 

"I would hate to be you," she says. 

I ignore her as I am sure that deep inside she means the opposite. I hand the Sincarion his payment and turn...