Aura rose early before dawn. Jalen and Aura were secretly going for a run in the forest every day before dawn. She quietly snuck out of Rhys' cottage and hid in every shadow to avoid the patrols, which had increased lately. After Dax came by three weeks with the news of Queen Galadriel Haleth, the Knights of the Land, the healthy villagers, and visiting volunteers have been working to improve the village. Aura started working on her herbal solution with Jalen in the greenhouse, so far she had made enough doses for the critical cases. The plague victims were responding better to treatment when they took her herbal solution.
Rhys followed Aura closely as tucked and rolled from hiding place to shadows. Aura was so focused on evading the villagers and knights that she was unaware Rhys was hot
