Could I leave Knight for dead in order to get myself to the cauldron? If only I had been as heartless as everyone claimed, there wouldn’t have been a problem. The answer would have been simple, and I would be safely on my way to the next test. But I couldn’t even contemplate abandoning him to such a horrible death. What did that say about me? What did that say about my feelings for Knight?
Panic infected my thoughts like an insidious virus. I could feel its poisonous effects toying with my emotions, and I tried desperately to calm my thinking before I spiraled out of control. This was not the first seemingly impossible problem I had faced in my life. There was a viable solution, I would just have to find it. Magic was not willy-nilly. There had to be a reason for the boat’s peculiar actio
