"I recommend speaking to the High Witch of my coven. If anyone can help you solve this, it will be her. Be careful though, my people are somewhat...insular."
Long after the Panacea had packed her bags and departed from the palace, Seraphina refused to speak a word to anyone. She ate the meal the servants prepared and drank the bitter medicinal broth that Salix placed before her, all of this she did without making a single sound. Her gaze was pointed somewhere distant yet internal, as though she were not seeing the plain grey clinic and worried faces, but instead lost somewhere in the confines of her own mind.
Once dusk arrived and Salix bade everyone to leave her to rest, Alios reached out to touch her skin. Then, for the first time in hours, her empty expression changed and she flinched
