Chapter 30
The liquid inside turned gaseous the instant its container was breached. For one split second, I thought it might be possible to get the cloud to Aiti or Aiti to the cloud. Then...it dissipated. One moment there. The next moment gone.
If I’d been two-legged, I would have roared out questions. Why would the cook destroy my mother’s only chance of returning to humanity? Didn’t she understand that, in the Queen’s hands, the perfume had assisted evil but in my mother’s it would only turn toward good?
Unfortunately, I wasn’t two-legged and Aiti’s frantic squawking suggested she needed me. I spun...and ran directly into Ryder.
His eyes were as sad as mine, his ears pinned back against his furry skull. “Want me to eat her?” he asked. The words could have been humorous, but I got th
