***
“Good heavens!” Rachel exclaimed as Regina pulled her into the room. “What happened to you?”
“It doesn’t matter,” Regina said before Adaria could speak. “Can you fix her up?”
She walked towards Adaria, who was sitting on the edge of her bed with a cloth over her swollen eye. She gently moved the cloth away, sucking in a breath.
“It looks bad,” she said. “But nothing we can’t fix up. Let me go and get my things.”
She sped out of the room, and Adaria felt relief flood through her. She laid back down on the bed, still keeping the cloth pressed over her eye. Liana and Regina sat on either side of her, still astonished by her disheveled state.
“So you’re saying he murdered four people today?” Liana asked.
“Three,” Adaria clarified. “But to be fair, they were trying to kill us bot
