“Veronica!” I shouted with excitement and, holding the coconut, rushed closer to her side. “You did that so easily!”
Veronica did not seem to mirror my level of joy. In fact, she seemed utterly dissatisfied, frowning at herself. Her breaths were shallow. She seemed winded.
“It’s not good enough,” she grumbled.
I sat down at her side and watched her curiously. “How can you say that? You are getting so much better, and in such a short amount of time.”
She shook her head and reiterated, “Still not good enough. Just doing this, right now, has taken so much out of me. I can only imagine how taxing it must be to teleport an actual person, let alone a person and myself.”
When Hawk had escaped the palace with Jane, he had been able to sneak himself onto the palace grounds, likely teleporting,
