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    Huh

    What was that about?

    And talking of Killian, why had she handed me that specific salve the other night? I had yet ito /iask her that question.

    It had slipped out of my mind with the patient trying to choke me to death and Sarah giving me a cold shoulder.

    I realizeding face to face with her batch mates had just made her realize that she was left behind and was acting out but I truly missed the swear word butchering friend of mine.

    Even my being the Blessed One hadn’t deterred her from wanting to be my friend, so why would this slowpoke Abby affect

    her so much?

    Frustrated, I hovered around the desk, wondering if I should follow her.

    From the corner of my eye, I could see Abby snickering. She seemed d about my fallout with Sarah, if I could even call it

    that.

    Chloe, meanwhile, fussed over the star of the century but got treated like a servant by the overachiever.

    “Come on now, Chloe, If you cant even tell a root from a stem, you should just go back to being a Novice.”

    Chloe grew teary eyed and her face turned red.

    “No, please don’t send me away.”

    Abby saw me watching them iso /igrabbed an empty sk and hurled it at her.

    “Shut up and keep the ingredients sorted and prepare everything for tomorrow. I will go get some sleep”

    Abby ordered her like Chloe was her personal ve and Chloe nodded all too eagerly.

    I shook my head and walked away from the table. I headed towards the resting chamber and saw Sarah wiping her face

    with a towel.

    But she looked away upon seeing me,

    So even I didn’t bother trying to chat with her.

    It was no fault of mine that she failed her exams and she didn’t have to take her frustration out on me. I was just trying to help.

    Thinking that, I walked right past her and went to the bathroom for a quick shower. Unlike Nina’s quarters, the apothecary had a resting, eating and even a bathing space attached to it instead of having to go all the way back to the quarters outside the temple.

    Maybe it was because Amara was an Elder, so got to enjoy higher perks or maybe because there were sick people around,

    so those facilities were the bare minimum.

    I washed and changed into another gown and wanted to head back to rest my back a little. It waste and most of the temple workers had retired to bed.

    And I wasn’t feeling particrly fond of Sarah or Killian either. Plus my back and body felt sore. I had been running up and down doing the work Amara assigned us all day and solving Sarah’s issues.

    I needed a break.

    So while wiping my hair, I decided to just go sleep and give myself some much deserved rest.

    The mattress was thin, and the nket was even thinner, no thicker than the bedsheet, but it was better than nothing.

    I snuggled into the bed and instantly all the muscles in my body reminded me of how each of them hurt and cried for my

    attention.

    But I was so tired that my eyes fluttered shut, and soon I was surrounded by darkness.

    I shifted in my sleep and felt the thin nket being pulled down my leg.

    I tugged on one end sleepily and pulled it back up.

    But it slipped down again. I could feel the fabric slowly moving down my ankle and yanked at it too hard.

    It came flying up and hit my face, almost suffocating me.

    “Sarah, if this is youi,/ii” /iI groaned in my sleep, but then I felt a hand on my ankle. The grip was stronger and far more

    masculine.

    Before I knew, that grip yanked me down the cot and Inded on my butt upon the cold floor.

    “What the…” I barely opened my eyes to open and see who it was but felt something sting my cheek.

    Someone pped me hard.

    “You should die,” I heard a growl, and the next time I opened my eyes, I saw a set of teeth inches from my face.

    Glearning yellow and sharp.

    Timmediately pushed back, or tried to, but my head mmed against the hard cave wall.

    Patient number thirty three had somehow sneaked into the resting chambers of the Novices, found my bed and returned

    to hurt me.

    He kept repeating how I should die and kept trying to hurt me but his body wasn’t really listening to him because he

    looked a little disoriented.

    “Help!!” I screamed, but I realized I was the only one in the room.

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    And he had closed the door, the only entry or exit point avable to me and blocking it.

    I got up, swaying on my feet a little, and held my hand to my head coz it was throbbing as if someone had just hammered olliit. /li/ol

    “Look, rx. You don’t want to do this.”

    But he grew angry, his pupils dted, and he snarled ferociously.

    “You have to die. You are the reason for this….for my condition,” He said, curling his hands into fists and grabbing me by

    the cor.

    I was lifted off by the cor as he continued to speak in a thick, gravely voice.

    “You cursssssed us. You betrayed our trusssst and are now siding with the lycans. I will kill…iyou/i.”

    His speech was getting slurred, but his eyes were glowing with murderous hatred.

    And as if I could finally sense why he was after me, I managed to speak.

    “I am not Morwenna. I didn’t do anything. Please let me go!!”

    But he held me up in that firm grip of his, my feet dangling in the air as he snarled again.

    “You should die!!”

    He raised another hand to choke me again, and I tried to hit him, kick him do anything to loosen his hold.

    When my kicks and punches did little to hurt him, tblindly brought my mouth down on the hand that was trying to choke ollime. /li/ol

    His hand that was holding me by the cor was heavily covered in fur, but the other was still just flesh.

    So I bit into his arm as hard as I could, and he howled in pain. He iled his hand up and down and tossed me around like he was trying to get rid of a pesky flea.

    I was thrown towards the door and mmed against it but I didn’t have time to think of the pain. Getting up quickly, I reached for the knob and opened the door.

    He saw me trying to run away, so tried to lunge at me but I closed the door shut and held onto it while he rammed into it.

    My strength wasn’t enough, and the doortch was only halfway closed.

    “Help, somebody!!” I screamed while still struggling to keep the door locked.

    “You are gonna die today!” I heard him/scream behind the door, and he gave it a hard shove.

    Shit! Was this how I was going to die?

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