Chapter 26: Questions and Concerns

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Ash’s POV: “Any change?” Rosa’s soft voice manages to break through the numbness that pulled me under when I left the room. Unable to take another second to look at Leila’s small, broken form. Indistinct muttering follows her question and, despite myself, I find myself trying to understand the words. To find their meanings, so I have something else to cling to. Something other than the numbness that threatens to trap me the longer she doesn’t move. “Not much,” Eris’s tone is full of contrition, but it doesn’t help. Doesn’t help because all it does is make that emptiness stronger. “Since we can’t use magic yet, we’ll have to use human methods to heal her.” A pause. “To try and remove the silver, we can try chelation therapy - to attempt to draw the heavy concentration of the metal out of

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